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I am currently digging around build tools, can you give some examples how did you manage your builds without libtools? Currently messing with LFS, its heavily u

I am currently digging around build tools, can you give some examples how did you manage your builds without libtools? Currently messing with LFS, its heavily using as far as I understand. Only openssl explained their decision why they didnt choose libtool path[0] [https://www.openssl.org/docs/faq.html#MISC5 https://www.openssl.org/docs/faq.html#MISC5] (Why aren't tools like 'autoconf' and 'libtool' or 'cmake' used?)

burfog 7y ago
Plain old make will work. The older style would have a separate target for each platform that is supported. The newer style is more like how the Linux kernel build system works, with += operators in the Makefile to add options and put things in lists. Last time I used it, I found libtool to be a real mess. It had shell scripts pretending to be object files. That is simply not acceptable. There were way too many layers of gunk, making it difficult to have good control over what was being created.