Re: Automake,cygwin: 'make clean' with libtool wrappers...

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Charles> IMO, to implement #3 means a lot of work -- you must
 Charles> analyze all of the Makefile.am's to see if there are
 Charles> any cxx files

I was thinking about something simpler: if my package uses C++
files, I must have a AC_PROG_CXX in my configure.ac.  Assuming
this has been called before AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, Libtool can check
for this using AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE.

That's probably not that easy, but actually Libtool is already
playing with `AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE([AC_PROG_CXX]...)' and I've
mistaken this as an attempt to do #3.

[...]

 Charles> It seems that the libtool folks have decided to follow
 Charles> choice #1 -- make a fully capable libtool utilizing
 Charles> everything the platform allows.  Then, let the package
 Charles> use that libtool script as it wants.

This is really nice for a stand-alone Libtool, but not when
embedded in a package.  It just bloats configure with useless
tests, wasting time and space.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz