How to debug a program wrapped in a libtool script?

Question

I have a project involving

• shared libraries ie: mylib.so
• (test) program using these shared libraries ie: test_mylib

Answer 1

The solution recommended by the libtool docs is to use static linking during development, as I decribed at: Build libtool application with static linking to local components

To do this, use the --disable-shared option to the ./configure script.

For example:

./configure --enable-debug --disable-shared

Now the generated executable is a directly executable binary rather than a libtool script.

This has the added benefit of roughly halving the build time.