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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: packages containing libtool
From:       "Keith P. Boruff" <kboruff () optonline ! net>
Date:       2005-02-12 22:26:09
Message-ID: 200502121726.09445.kboruff () optonline ! net
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On Saturday 12 February 2005 03:14 pm, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Keith P. Boruff wrote:
> >Hey all,
> >
> >I noticed that many of the packages (at least the ones I've dealt with)
> >contain their own libtool programs instead of using the system's
> > libtool?
> >
> >Why is this?
>
> Because:
>
> 1) not every system has libtool
>
> 2) our shipped libtool is modified
>
> Any of those two reasons is enough to make shipping libtool mandatory.

Thanks Thiago. It's hard to believe that most systems that have KDE don't have 
libtool installed but someone, somewhere must have dealt with this problem at 
some time; hence, the custom libtool. 

In any case, your explanation is good enough for me. 

Thanks, 
Keith
 
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