Some thoughts on the modularization effort

[John Davidorff Pell]

GNU libtool is supplied as glibtool. `libtool' is an entirely  
separate tool. Most programs that use a system supplied libtool need  
patches to call glibtool instead. Most packages just generate their  
own libtool and ignore any system supplied tools of the same name,  
AFAIK. :-)

JP


On 31 Mar 2005, at 11:43, Adam Jackson wrote:

> On Thursday 31 March 2005 03:12, John Davidorff Pell wrote:
>> Actually, OSX uses most of the FreeBSD userland, and most of the
>> FreeBSD kernel as part of its mach microkernel, and I believe that
>> the linker used was forked, at some point, off GNU's ld.
>>
>> That said, I know nothing about libtool. :-)
>
> For the most part OSX's toolchain is GNU based plus some patches  
> and Mach-O
> weirdness.  However their libtool is frickin' alien, has basically  
> no syntax
> in common with GNU libtool afaict.
>
> I have no idea how automake handles that, but apparently it works  
> (cf. Fink,
> portage on OSX, etc.)
>
> - ajax



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