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This is only semi-related, but would you mind explaining what libtool actually does and what problem it solves? I've never been able to fully grok it.
by rkangel 5y ago
This is only semi-related, but would you mind explaining what libtool actually does and what problem it solves? I've never been able to fully grok it.
- account42 5y agolibtool is a build tool made primarily to make your life hell if you do anything that the libtool authors did not plan for. Like who thought it would be a good idea to silently drop unknown linker-driver flags.
- cryptonector 5y agoIt writes metadata into .la files, which are text-based adjuncts to .a files. It's meant to give you a common and portable interface to static and dynamic linking. But libtool is written in POSIX shell, it's not part of the linker, and it is a bit of a disaster.