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slibtool

  • LIBTOOL=slibtool should be added to MAKEFLAGS
  • /usr/share/libtool vs /usr/share/libtoolize paths
  • glibtoolize is not a necessary symlink
  • Duplicate the copied macros under a new directory /usr/share/libtool/AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS?
  • Officially migrated from midipix.org to foss21.org
  • slibtool does not install .la files by default (can be reversed by using clibtool)
  • slibtoolize will be provided in the future (either as a mode or a symlink)
  • 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)
  • libtoolize fails as a symlink to slibtool (several build tools complain e.g. gmp) (since slibtool does not treat libtoolize with the stoolie driver)
  • slibtool’s ltmain.sh is broken; provide alternative instead?
  • libarchive does not build with slibtoolize or the libtoolize wrapper; only with gnu libtoolize
  • Serpent’s space macro patch breaks builds with slibtool-shared-shared not found
  • slibtool additionally installs two symlinks:
    • slibtool-static: equivalent of -disable-shared
    • slibtool-shared: equivalent of -disable-static
    • these symlinks should be used when building packages that have the above switches hard-coded into the generated libtool script (e.g. binutils and gdb which have shared library builds disabled by default)
    • to determine whether this invocation form is appropriate with a specific package run ./libtool --features from the build directory, then check if the output has either shared or static library builds disabled
  • If slibtool is invoked as a basic tool (i.e. slibtool, dlibtool, etc.), then building both shared libraries and static archives is enabled by default

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