slibtool

TODO

Check if explicitly passing --sysroot=$cross is required when cross-compiling (see configure)
Check if we need to set --toolchain=llvm and --with-preferred-host-*=llvm-* as these options only affect slibtool’s runtime tool choices for native builds and we already prefer the non-prefixed version of the tools as we only provide llvm binary utilities as the default version for the tools ar, as, nm and ranlib (see project/config/cfgdefs.sh)

Check if we can rely on less stuff from gnu libtool
Check if it is better to symlink /usr/bin/libtool -> rlibtool globally as /usr/bin/libtool -> /usr/share/slibtool/slibtool.sh is not recommended globally and should only be reserved for some broken projects as ./libtool -> /usr/share/slibtool/slibtool.sh and when it is used LIBTOOL=rlibtool and SLIBTOOL=rlibtool should be set
Check if we need to set LIBTOOL=rlibtool, SLIBTOOL=rlibtool and LIBTOOLIZE=slibtoolize globally
Check if we need the /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 -> ../slibtool/slibtool.m4 symlink in addition to /usr/share/aclocal/slibtool.m4

app is an alias for frontend which is enabled by default
glaucus-configure works as --sysconfdir=/etc is needed to override the /usr/etc default
No need to pass --arch and --cross-compile as we already export ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE in the environment
No need to set any custom environment variables like COMPILER,PKGCONF and TOOLCHAIN as the configure options are sufficient
If --cchost and --target are not explicitly specified, then slibtool automatically sets them to --host’s value
--debug is not enabled by default
Do not set --strict as it adds -Werror to CFLAGS and -Wl,--no-undefined to LDFLAGS
--all-shared alone builds slibtool against libslibtool which does not exist unless --enable-shared is passed
ALL_SHARED and ALL_STATIC are set to no by default
DISABLE_SHARED and DISABLE_STATIC are set to yes by default (passing --disable-static is redundant)
We have no use for libslibtool both static and shared versions as nothing depends on it (and it is disabled by default)
We have no use for include/slibtool which is disabled by default and gets installed when either shared or static are enabled
No need to set any NATIVE_* variable
PE_SUBSYSTEM and PE_IMAGE_BASE are windows specific variables

Do not create a /usr/bin/glibtoolize symlink
Do not create a /usr/bin/libtoolize -> slibtool symlink since slibtool does not handle libtoolize with the stoolie driver (several packages complain) (use LIBTOOLIZE=slibtoolize or create a /usr/bin/libtoolize -> slibtoolize symlink instead)
Do not create a /usr/share/libtoolize directory (use /usr/share/libtool instead)
Do not duplicate macros under /usr/share/libtool/AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS (aclocal only searches /usr/share/aclocal)

LIBTOOL=slibtool should be added to MAKEFLAGS
Upstream migrated from midipix.org to foss21.org
ltdl is no longer needed (it serves to provide a dlopen() functionality on systems which do not offer it, i.e. HP-UX and BeOS)
slibtool builds both shared and static without .la files or debug output
dlibtool same as slibtool with debug output (d stands for debug)
clibtool same as slibtool with .la files (c stands for compatibility)
rlibtool automagically operate in the exact same mode (static, shared or both) as the generated libtool script (r probably stands for heuristics)
dclibtool, rclibtool, rdlibtool and rdclibtool are combinations of the previous letters (c adds .la files and d adds debug output)
slibtool-static: equivalent of -disable-shared (use rlibtool instead)
slibtool-shared: equivalent of -disable-static (use rlibtool instead)
autoreconf copies files from autoconf and automake packages after installation and not from /usr/share/libtool/build-aux