Re: [PATCH] reenable libtool options

Justin Erenkrantz <justin_at_erenkrantz.com> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk> wrote:
>> Justin feels that is not acceptable, I'm not really sure why but I
>> think it's because it creates libtool dropping in the build dir.
>
> I repeatedly said why - I looked at all of the other broken code that
> was removed with it. Almost all of the autogen.sh logic was bad and
> would need to be reworked substantially to be 'proper'.

That bad logic didn't seem to affect me.

> Rather than
> continue to apply more and more band-aids on top of broken band-aids,
> I do not feel that Subversion should be in the business of determining
> how to build libraries. IMO, that should be APR's job. Our build
> system gets tremendously simplified in the process and I feel that's a
> *huge* win. -- justin

A win for you, but you don't use libtool. It's a loss for me.

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