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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Fons Rademakers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > with MacOS X 10.6 this distinction between shared library and dynamic > library has disappeared. One can just build, like on Linux, shared libraries > that can be used either at link time or loaded at run-time. So that should > simplify the issue, as long as autotools takes this into account too. But I > see that Alden is still using 10.4, ouch, that's old man. Hi Fons, well, it actually fails for me on my 10.6.4 macbook, with the linker complaining that I try to link against a loadable module... but that's probably the fault of outdated binutils or something like that. I will take a closer look. > In general though I would in this day and time stay away from autotools as > far as I can as they are in general the most horrendous, ugly, complicated > and SLOW build hack in existence. I agree, and I think there is a general consensus in the community about that. It's just that not everyone agrees that there is an alternative ;) > For a fairly straight forward project like xrootd I > would move the build system to cmake, or keep the by now fine tuned gmake > file build system. That was one of the ideas that I wanted to discuss with Andy at some point. Anyways, for now I still want to have the autotools working because the classical build does not seem to support parallel builds and doesn't work at all with coverity. Cheers, Lukasz