On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Various recent and not so recent problem reports got me thinking again
> that it might be worth switching our shared library build system to
> libtool. Among those are:
>
> - Guesswork about which spellings of -rpath, -export-dynamic, -fpic etc.
> work on a particular platform or compiler.
>
> - Lack of information about which libraries libpq depends on.
>
> - Makefile.shlib can only build one library per directory.
>
> - pgxs is pretty ugly and inflexible because of the above.
>
> - Static libraries built with -fpic, which is sometimes considered a
> bug.
>
> - Misbehavior with rpaths pointing the wrong way during the regression
> tests and similar problems could maybe be tackled.
>
> Considering that pretty much everyone uses libtool these days, I'm not
> too worried about portability.
>
> (And before anyone asks: No, libtool does not require automake.)
>
> I think it may be worth trying out. Comments?
Does it work with Windows, or with that be a 'special case'?
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