Re: libtool version detection

--On Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:28 PM -0800 Brian Denny <brian@briandenny.net>
wrote:

> subversion requires libtool 1.4.
> other software (e.g., almost every freebsd port i build) requires 1.3
> and doesn't seem to like 1.4.

Just to add a data point as to *why* SVN requires libtool 1.4:

libtool 1.4 stores inter-library dependency information. Therefore, we can
just specify that libsvn_ra_dav is dependent upon neon. That neon dependency
propogates up to the other libraries automatically when we pull in the
libsvn_ra_dav.la. This propogation eventually ending up in either svn,
svnserve, or mod_dav_svn.

If we didn't have that feature, our linking code would be a little bit more
complicated. Every library along the way would have to know that
libsvn_ra_Dav is dependent upon neon.

All of that said, I think build.conf has enough information to generate those
dependencies with some autoconf magic that 1.3 could be used.

But, it probably isn't worth the hassle. =-) -- justin

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Received on Sat Mar 29 18:51:18 2003