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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 05/16/2011 02:06 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Another option would be to not use autoconf at all.
                                     ^^^^^^^^

You probably mean libtool?

> Building ELF shared
> libs isn't that difficuilt these days. Question is whenever there is any
> non-ELF platform we care about (Windows maybe?).

... and Darwin?

Paolo