Re: libtool && automake

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@hem.passagen.se>
To: "Duane Wessels" <wessels@squid-cache.org>
Cc: <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: libtool && automake

> Duane Wessels wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > > The end user experience doesn't change from
> > > ./configure && make && make install
> >
> > And we include 'automake' and 'libtool' scripts in the
> > source distribution? Are they /bin/sh scripts? Perl?
>
> Why include the automake/libtool programs? Just run them before making
a
> distribution just as we today run autoconf. The only added requirement
> is that developers should have automake and libtool installed if they
> want to change the makefiles..
>
> automake and libtool are a lot bigger than a "script".
>
> /Henrik
>

Automake you don't install. It's done by the developers to create the
makefile.in.
Libtool has to configure itself on the platform at build time - that's
part of how it achieves its flexability.

And they're not _that_ big (ok libtool is kinda big at 150k)

Rob
Received on Tue Mar 20 2001 - 01:51:11 MST