[Gdal-dev] error because of libtool?

[Alessandro Amici]

Vincent,

On Friday 17 October 2003 15:38, Vincent Schut wrote:
> Fix confirmed.

thanks

> Compilation is with libtool is terribly sloooowwww... Will the without-
> libtool option stay? Any drawbacks on not using the libtool mechanism?

the old mechanism still supports all architectures that were supported before, 
*but* the name of the library file is different and a small but important 
detail is got wrong (the soname is not set properly).

so i advise to only use the --witout-libtool during development and maybe 
testing, but definetly use the libtool build in production systems (sure it 
is sloooow, but you don't rebuild gdal everyday, do you? ;)

my plan (not sure if Frank will agree, thou) is to leave the -without-libtool 
option to only support the development platforms (linux mainly but also any 
unix with gcc and gnu ld). this will further simplify the build 
infrastructure and still leave anybody using the gnu tools with the option of 
a fast build.

cheers,
alessandro