Re: libtool varying versions
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 10:41:42PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> Many of my packages contain shared libraries, and many of them use their
> own versions of libtool.
>
> These libtools, among other things, do not always link their shared
> libraries dynamically;
One of the irritating other things is that newer versions of libtool force
-rpath.
> Gtk+ has just moved to a new version of libtool which no longer links the
> shared libraries dynamically.
>
> Do I remove the newer libtool from the upstream source and replace it with
> the current libtool in the Debian distribution?
That's the approach I've taken for LessTif, and it works great so far.
The libtool author is aware of our concerns; check out
http://www.profitpress.com/libtool/deplibs.html
HTH,
Ray
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