Re: ITP: Xalan-C++
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:07:22AM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> > Yves> I don't know why these guys make it so painful! I'm not
> > Yves> saying that they should use libtool, but they could make
> >
> > I think it is very easy to add libtool and automake support to a
> > package that already has configure support. That way it should work on
> > any platform too (except perhaps Windows of course).
>
> As I said previously, libtool doesn't work well with C++ and static
> initializers on Solaris + gcc. AFAIK this hasn't been fixed yet. If it is,
> I'd love to know about it. If it isn't it's reason enough not to use libtool
> and do it "by hand" as I did for ICU.
I think it's reason enough to fix libtool and send them a patch. That's why
it is free software after all.
Thanks,
Marcus
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