Next: , Up: Top   [Contents][Index]  1 Introduction  In the
past, if you were a source code package developer and wanted to
take advantage of the power of shared libraries, you needed to
write custom support code for each platform on which your
package ran. You also had to design a configuration interface so
that the package installer could choose what sort of libraries
were built.   GNU Libtool’s consistent interface is reassuring…
users don’t need to read obscure documentation to have their
favorite source package build shared libraries. They just run
your package configure script (or equivalent), and libtool does
all the dirty work.   libhello could be a shared library, a
static library, or both… whatever is available on the host
system, as long as libtool has been ported to it.   Next: , Up:
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