Re: looks like bug

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 12, 2001, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <address@hidden> wrote:

> Is there system which allows such strange linking?

On AIX, for one, a single libname.a can contain various versions of
shared libraries and regular object files.  On a number of systems,
libtool would pass -lname to the linker, not the actual pathname of
the library, so the linker would search for a static library when
given the option to look for them.  So, it would work on a number of
systems, yes.

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