[pooma-dev] Re: pooma-dev Digest 23 Jun 2003 12:57:44 -0000 Issue 243

[Mark Mitchell]

> Ok, I can see this makes sense somehow. The only problem I see is building
> shared libraries - though I think usage of shared libaries in high
> performance computation is very rare. Though, of course, using automake
> will help doing dependencies and installation rules. So while I'm in
> favour of dropping shared library support (and such libtool), I'd be
> rather not willing to miss automake.

I've never really found automake to be much of a win -- relative to GNU
make -- but then again, I've not found it to be much of a loss either.

And you are volunteering to do the work!

So, I'll back out of this debate. :-)

Thanks,

-- 
Mark Mitchell
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