[Cook] Shared libraries

[Magnus Holmgren]

The "library" cookbook is fine, but rather insufficient by today's standards. 
Normally one wants to build shared libraries as well. Are there any plans for 
adding recipes, or a new cookbook, to ease building of shared libraries?

If so, would the recipes likely be libtool-based or would it be possible to 
build the functionality of libtool into the recipes and/or cook itself? I 
realise that cook is not a replacement for autoconf and such, but it would 
sure be nice if there were one tool capable of directing portable software 
builds in one go. Compare CMake, which can replace both autoconf, automake, 
and libtool, and seems to do so pretty well, but generates hideous makefiles 
as the intermediate step, requires some trickery to build both static and 
shared libraries, and unfortunately has some dissimilarities to autoconf that 
it would be better off without.

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Magnus Holmgren        holmgren at lysator.liu.se
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