From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLwaf-0001NQ-2x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 08:08:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLwad-0006kJ-A7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 08:08:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLwad-0006jx-0Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 08:07:59 -0400 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4GC7wUK032317 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 08:07:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4DD1139B.4030301@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:07:55 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1305474018-23235-1-git-send-email-alevy@redhat.com> <1305474018-23235-3-git-send-email-alevy@redhat.com> <4DD0CB7A.7050700@redhat.com> <20110516102529.GF27965@playa.redhat.com> <4DD0FD3C.20707@redhat.com> <4DD11333.6020908@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD11333.6020908@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] libcacard: add libcacard.la target List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 05/16/2011 02:06 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Usually programs that are fully autoconf-iscated will ship a subset of >> libtool sources in the tarball, build a custom version at configure >> time, and invoke it from the Makefile via ./libtool. This has the >> advantage that only the maintainer needs to have libtool installed. OTOH >> we do not use Autoconf and I think this contributes to 99% of the bad >> name for Autoconf, so it's not something we want. > > Another option would be to not use autoconf at all. ^^^^^^^^ You probably mean libtool? > Building ELF shared > libs isn't that difficuilt these days. Question is whenever there is any > non-ELF platform we care about (Windows maybe?). ... and Darwin? Paolo