| 71 | | !ToDo: can someone explain how libtool works and how we can use it? |
| | 71 | libtool hides the building of shared and static libraries and executables behind a single simple command-line interface. It hides the details of how to build executables against uninstalled shared libraries, and how to install those executables, on multiple platforms. |
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| | 73 | When building an object file for a library, libtool builds both the PIC and non-PIC versions. |
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| | 75 | When building a library, libtool builds both the shared and static version, and remembers where the shared version will be installed later (you have to supply this path when building the library). |
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| | 77 | When building an executable against shared libraries, libtool creates a script instead. The script relinks the executable against uninstalled shared libraries (using `-rpath` on Linux) on demand, caches the resulting executable in `.libs`. |
