[csw-maintainers] libtool rearranges linker arguments and puts -L/opt/csw/lib last

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Tue Jan 12 18:32:52 CET 2010


On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> Given the issues we constantly hit with libtool, I always find myself
> wondering if it was ever a benefit instead of a burden.  Any
> grey-beards care to offer some historical perspective on this?
>

"libtool evil".

this is why our official documented guidelines are,
"REMOVE .la files from your packages" !!!



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