[Ecls-list] Rewriting autoconf -> autoconf/automake

[jwiegley at gmail.com]

On Nov 13, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Mark Hoemmen wrote:

> I'd be interested if you could make it easier somehow to port ECL to  
> use
> other compilers, by adding a test for what their equivalents of the
> -fPIC and -shared flags are (or whether they are needed at all).  I  
> was
> working on porting ECL to AIX / xlc a while back, but got  
> sidetracked by
> my main work.

This is exactly what libtool does, when used with automake.

John