libtool: Configuring
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1 5.4 Configuring libtool
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1 Libtool requires intimate knowledge of your compiler suite and operating
1 system to be able to create shared libraries and link against them
1 properly. When you install the libtool distribution, a system-specific
1 libtool script is installed into your binary directory.
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11 However, when you distribute libtool with your own packages (⇒
Distributing), you do not always know the compiler suite and operating
1 system that are used to compile your package.
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1 For this reason, libtool must be "configured" before it can be used.
1 This idea should be familiar to anybody who has used a GNU 'configure'
1 script. 'configure' runs a number of tests for system features, then
1 generates the 'Makefile's (and possibly a 'config.h' header file), after
1 which you can run 'make' and build the package.
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1 Libtool adds its own tests to your 'configure' script to generate a
1 libtool script for the installer's host machine.
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