[gst-devel] libtool requirement for plugins

[Benjamin Otte]

On 23 May 2003, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 01:34, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> > Using libtool < 1.5 requires you to figure out the C++ specific compiler
> > flags in configure.
>
> Requires you how ?
>
libtool doesn't figure out required c++ libs by itself. So you need to do
that for it to work.

> >  With the old libtool they are hardcoded into the
> > Makefile and every C++ plugin wass linked with -lstdc++ (which as I said
> > broke Forte).
>
> Broke Forte how ?
>
Forte doesn't know libstdc++


> > So if you really wanted to get it working again with the old libtool you
> > would have to figure out the compiler-specific flags for c++ and pass them
> > to the ldflags every time you build a c++ plugin.
>
> Which isn't that hard to do, unless you can tell me where the blocker is
> that forces libtool 1.5 over 1.4.
>
No, but it's unclean and stupid if you have software that works. Why do a
lot of work to support broken old software?

Benjamin