Makefiles Should Install libtool *.la and *.lo files.

[llvmbot]

Bugzilla Link	270
Resolution	INVALID
Resolved on	Feb 22, 2010 12:49
Version	trunk
OS	All
Reporter	LLVM Bugzilla Contributor
CC	@lattner

Extended Description

Since LLVM uses libtool to generate its libraries and objects, it would be a
courtesy to other libtool users if LLVM would install all the libtool output.
That is, for every xyz.a library there should be an xyz.la file and for every
abc.o object there should be an abc.lo file. These files help libtool portably
link the objects and libraries into other programs.

[lattner]

This is really a bug that John or Brian would be qualified to deal with, as I
don't know very much about libtool (it just makes me want to retch :). I'm sure
that they would take a patch though. :)

-Chris

[llvmbot]

getting on my soap box

This kind of stuff wouldn't happen if we were using automake. Any kind of patch
I would have would be to convert LLVM to automake. Figuring out this stuff is a
waste of time because its already been done by automake. Like I've said before,
if the project would just move the non-regression testing stuff to a separate
CVS module, I'd be happy to do the conversion.

getting off my soap box

[llvmbot]

The recent makefile revisions have made fixing this bug ill-advised. automake
won't be used. The current makefile system builds .a files without using
libtool. Where shared libraries are needed, libtool is used. libtool generated
libraries have their .so and .la versions installed.

Consequently, this but is resolved with INVALID resolution.