[Zlib-devel] Use autoconf for zlib?

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Greg Roelofs <newt at pobox.com> schrieb:

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> libpng has recently done this; you might want to check the png-mng-implement
> archives over the last two months for details.  There are known issues and
> semi-unknown workarounds for some of them; it's probably worth a quick look.

yeah, after some days of hacking, its now able to build properly ...

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> Personally, I detest libtool (and I'm not alone in that); I hate any tool
> that hides output files, and libtool loves to stick things in either .lib
> or .libs.  I don't have strong feelings about automake; on the one hand,
> it bloats out makefiles something fierce, but on the other, it apparently
> manages to get most systems' shared-library options and settings correct,
> and not just for GCC.  It also has decent support for cross-compilers, I
> believe.

Crosscompiling is a big problem for libtool, especially in sysroot 
environments. In short words: it simply doesn't work. 
I had to write my own libtool replacement for that, which is part of 
an crossplatform toolchain wrapper:

    http://wiki.metux.de/public/Universal_Toolchain
    

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