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

[John Wiegley]

On Nov 14, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

> AFAIK, libtool cannot check for the fags. -fPIC, unlike other flags,
> is not something that one checks for. One needs to know how the
> compiler works in order to choose the right flags, which normally go
> beyond that. OTOH, I agree that it would be nice to somehow leverage
> the knowledge database that these people have built with time.

This is what gets handled automatically when you use automake.  It
figures out everything that the compiler and linker need to know to
build either static or shared libraries, or both.

John