slibtool

• Check if all tools like LIBTOOL=slibtool should be added to MAKEFLAGS (check Gentoo wiki and slibtool’s README?)

• /usr/share/libtool vs /usr/share/libtoolize paths

• glibtoolize is not a necessary symlink

• Do we need to duplicate the copied macros under a new directory /usr/share/libtool/AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS?

• Officially migrated from midipix.org to foss21.org

• slibtool does not install .la files by default (can be reversed by using clibtool)

• slibtoolize will be provided in the future (either as a mode or a symlink)

• ltdl is no longer needed (it serves to provide a dlopen() functionality on systems which do not offer it, i.e. HP-UX and BeOS)

• libtoolize fails as a symlink to slibtool (several build tools complain e.g. gmp) (since slibtool does not treat libtoolize with the stoolie driver)

Resources

• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Slibtool
• https://dev.midipix.org/cross/slibtool/issue/5
• https://dev.midipix.org/cross/slibtool/issue/8
• https://dev.midipix.org/cross/slibtool/issue/50