Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> writes: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 08:23:38AM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote: >> On the other hand it is known to break packages. > > That is quite a claim! Note that our ardent libtool proponents don't care explaining what is or what may be wrong, neither they care fixing obviously libtool-related bugs themselves. If libtool causes problems, it should be removed. It's a tool, and its purpose should be serving people. It should simplify maintainance rather than cause random breakage in rather critical software such as PostgreSQL or Octave. We don't have drop-in replacement for any of the two. -- HE CE3OH...