Re: Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:46:56PM +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
> but the real problem comes with libtool... on windows.
> when i last used autotools (which is... 4 years ago), libtool was a shell
> script some 10.000 lines long.
> starting a process on that so-called OS takes _ages_, so it is not
> unsurprising that building C/C++ code on windows with a long shell script
> is _very_ slow.
> iirc, on the same hardware it was 5-10 times slower building on
> windows(mingw/msys) than on linux.
> oh, and what is libtool's support for MSVC like? does it exist at all?
> so unless someone proves me wrong here it seems to me that libtool is not
> really an option.

Did anyone in this discussion propose libtool? I didn't see it.
(You can use automake without libtool)

Grüße/Regards,

Rene