Skip to Main Content
Autotools
book

Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from Autotools

Using Libtool

An entire book could be written about the details of shared libraries and how they're implemented on various systems. The short primer you just read should suffice for our immediate needs, so I'll now move on to how you can use Libtool to make a package maintainer's life a little easier.

The Libtool project was started in 1996 by Gordon Matzigkeit. It was designed to extend Automake, but you can use it independently within hand-coded makefiles, as well. The Libtool project is currently maintained by Bob Friesenhahn, Peter O'Gorman, Gary Vaughan, and Ralf Wildenhues. As of this writing, the latest version of Libtool is version 2.2.6.

Abstracting the Build Process

First, let's look at how Libtool helps during the build process. Libtool ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool

GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool

Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey, Ian Lance Taylor
Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Bill Ball, David Pitts

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781593272067Errata