Re: libtool 1.4.2: pass_all for mips-linux, mipsel-linux

[Nick Hudson]

On Monday 14 January 2002 2:28 pm, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Robert Boehne wrote:
> > H. J. Lu submitted a patch for Linux-mips that has been checked
> > into the main branch.
> >
> > 2001-10-24  H.J. Lu  <address@hidden>
> >
> >         * ltmain.sh: Allow link against an archive when building a
> >         shared library.
> >         * libtool.m4 (lt_cv_deplibs_check_method): Always use
> >         file_magic for Linux ELF.
> >
> > If you like, I could port it to the 1.4 branch as I'm currently
> > not sure we won't release a 1.4.3.
>
>  Hmm, and how does libtool actually check an archive contains
> position-independent code, suitable for inclusion into a shared library?

It doesn't.

Nick