Re: BUG: library type search order

[Peter O'Gorman]

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Gary V.Vaughan wrote:
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| Darwin is unusual in being the only host that has an expression in shrext,
| every other setting of shrext is a string, so this patch is a NOP on other
| hosts.

Yes, this whole "different suffix" thing was not my idea, blame apple.

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| That aside, it would be worth auditing uses of shrext throughout libtool.m4
| and ltmain.in (for HEAD and branch-1-5) to make sure it is evaled prior to
| use on every occurrence.

It is indeed evaled prior to every other occurrence. I've already beaten Ben
up for this on irc :)

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| ISTR the naming convention is to use _cmd as a suffix for shell vars that
| must be evaled like this, precisely to stop us doing silly things like this
| in ltmain.in.  A complete patch will have to rename shrext to shrext_cmd.

Slavedriver ;-)

Okay, will come up with a 'complete' patch. Should mostly be a
search/replace thing.

Peter
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