NAME

libtool — compile and link complex libraries

DESCRIPTION

libtool is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for the eponymous GNU project. The following differences in behaviour with GNU Libtool are intentional:

• Relative -L paths are put before absolute ones. This fixes many (but not all, unfortunately) issues when software links to libraries already installed instead of those just built because, for example, “-L/usr/local/lib” comes before “-L../libfoo”.
• Extra (duplicate) -L and -l items are stripped from the link command line.
• When both “-lstdc++” and “-lestdc++” are encountered in the link command line, only the latter is kept.