Re: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> M4 master, for example, has had to simply turn off all the 
> libltdl/OS run-time loader path searching to maintain any cross 
> platform sanity (it does this by managing it's own search path 
> environment variable, making the searches itself and then always 
> passing fully qualified paths to libltdl).  That sort of 
> functionality seems like it should really be in libltdl, which is 
> supposed to help with this kind of thing.

GraphicsMagick does the same, but this is actually a blessing since it 
makes it easy to stop using libltdl if need be. :-)

Most would agree that libltdl includes too many features that nobody 
uses, but can bite you in the ass if you fail to pay attention.

Bob
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