Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] libcacard: add libcacard.la target

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 05/16/2011 12:25 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
> >  Note that this requires libtool at build time rather than only for
> >  maintainers.  This is unlike all other software using it.  However,
> >  I believe this is not too bad given that a special make invocation
> >  is required.
>
> I was under the impression this was the way to use libtool (I've basically
> followed the manual). Is there another way that is better?

Without using Autoconf, this is the way.

Usually programs that are fully autoconf-iscated will ship a subset of 
libtool sources in the tarball, build a custom version at configure 
time, and invoke it from the Makefile via ./libtool.  This has the 
advantage that only the maintainer needs to have libtool installed. 
OTOH we do not use Autoconf and I think this contributes to 99% of the 
bad name for Autoconf, so it's not something we want.

Paolo