[csw-maintainers] libtool .la irritations

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:26:09PM -0500, Mike Watters wrote:
> > what does "the old one" do, and how would you describe what fixme.sh does,
> > in contrast?
> 
> the current one in gar/bin Cory Omand wrote.
> "fixlibtool - remove build-only settings from libtool .la files
> ...
> Remove references to temporary directories"
> 
> fixme.sh
> "...modifies the Makefile replacing the *.la references with their -lname (generated from data inside the
> pseudo-library). it then modifies the libtool script(s) in $(WORKSRC) removing the .la extension from the library search."

Hmmm. still not sure what the older one does, from that :)

if you understand it... is it of value still?

might it be worth merging the two, having some kind of commandline switch
to toggle the behaviour, and keeping the name "fixlibtool"?