Some thoughts on the modularization effort

[Egbert Eich]

Alan Coopersmith writes:
 > Egbert Eich wrote:
 > > There are already some autotooled bits of the X.Org tree that use autotools.
 > > It may be interesting to see them built on non-Linux and non-BSD platforms
 > > and get some 'numbers' which would help us making decisions on the libtool 
 > > issue.
 > 
 > I've not had time to look into it much, but have built software on
 > Solaris that uses libtools and it mostly seems to work for the simple
 > cases, though *.la files need to be deleted everywhere they show up or
 > things get really broken.   Since rm *.la is so easy, I've never taken
 > the time to look into what they are supposed to do and what's going wrong.

rm *.la may work for you, but it is not a solution we want to suggest
to our users. Imagine we need to explain in our build instructions

   Step n: [Solaris only] do
       cd foobar; rm *.la
 
Therefore this is a situation which certainly begs for investigation.

Cheers,
	Egbert.