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| From: | Pedro Ivo Andrade Tavares |
| Subject: | Re: libtool questions |
| Date: | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 01:42:14 -0200 |
At 01:14 18/12/2001, Anthony W. Juckel wrote:
I've noticed that libtool is used in the OpenStep 4.x target for making shared libraries, but libtool is not used for any other system targets. Is there a reason for this? In other words, is this a planned decision, or has libtool support just not been added to the other system targets?Anthony W. Juckel
NeXT/Apple's libtool is not the same as GNU's libtool, and it has a different function. Note that, on MacOS X/Darwin, GNU libtool is available as glibtool, to avoid name clashes with the platform's libtool. AFAIK, GNU libtool is not used in any platform.
Keep in mind that NeXT/Apple's dynamic linker/loader is substantially different from other platforms. Probably libtool is a needed step in generating a shared library (as, for example, ranlib is used when generating a static lib). It's unfortunate that different tools have the same name.
Pedro Ivo Tavares
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