[gambit-list] location of libgambcgsi.so
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sun Nov 30 08:37:38 EST 2008
On 30-Nov-08, at 7:39 AM, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> if so, then the first compilation is redundant.
It is redundant unless your system needs it! Probably redundant on
most systems, but it is a quick operations (a few seconds to relink).
> Delaying linking until after
> install is incompatible with installing into a temporary staging
> area aka
> DESTDIR. Are you certain it is really that bad? What platform are we
> talking
> about that needs this?
I forget. But it was not a single system. Wild guess: AIX and SUNOS.
> If you want portability shouldn't you be using libtool
> instead of rolling your own?
The makefiles predate libtool. Moreover libtool does not exist on all
platforms (so using it would not be portable). I guess its existence
could be tested by the configure script. How is libtool typically
used for software installation?
Marc
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