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

[Goffioul Michael]

> > 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.

Would an autoconf/automake/libtool system support MSVC compiler?

Michael.