[geeks] !!!

[Dave McGuire]

On December 9, David Passmore wrote:
> >   I appreciate the work of developers who write wonderful software
> > like KDE and Gnome.  I want to choke the life out of them, however,
> > when I find that they think "all the world is a Linux/intel box" and
> > forget that C is a portable language.  *grumble*
> 
> Then you're not bitching about libtool, you're bitching about the
> programmers who implement it in a broken fashion.
> 
> .libs is where libtools builds both static and shared versions of the
> objects it's asked to build. If the binary has runtime dependencies on .libs
> it is broken. The environmental variable LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH will tell
> libtool-built binaries where to find the shared objects they need.
> 
> Libtool works fine for me under Solaris, IRIX, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Dynix
> PTX, HP-UX, Cygwin, U-Win...

  ...so try building (and running) MySQL under NetBSD.  If libtool is
so difficult to implement correctly, then I'm still bitching about
libtool.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL