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Notes on Using GNU libtool

libtool might get confused by heterogenous compiler setups. This is the case, for example, on our Solaris system where by default gcc is used in combination with the system specific linker. This configuration leads to libtool reporting that no shared library can be built which definitely is wrong. In most cases such problems can be solved by fiddling with the environment entries CC, CFLAGS, LD and LDFLAGS.

libtool hides the real objects in subdirectories named .libs. This means, after a successful build, libt1.so is located in T1/lib/.libs. Similarly, if shared libraries are built the executable T1/xglyph/xglyph is a simple wrapper to T1/xglyph/.libs/xglyph.



2005-01-12