Re: [patch #6416] AmigaOS4 support in libtool

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Henning,

* Henning Nielsen Lund wrote on Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:05:05PM CET:
> > * Henning Nielsen Lund wrote on Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:16:17PM CET:
> >>
> >> Since July 2007 AmigaOS4 officially supports .so libraries. It would be
> >> nice if it would be possible to add support for it in Libtool. The
> >> attached patch does make it working.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the patch.  Apart from minor version skew-induced
> > hunks, it looks good to me.  Could you be bothered to run the testsuite
[...]
> Sorry for the delay, but here is my result, using a crosscompilation suite
> on cygwin. The test was running on libtool-2.1b with my changes - patch
> #6416
> 
> It will be more difficult to make the test native, as we do not have a new
> enough version of automake/autoconf running on AmigaOS4. But I will do
> mine to test it this weekend.

It's fine if you do cross compilation testing.

What I'd like to know though before applying the patch: are there
systems other than m68k and powerpc on which AmigaOS runs?  Do we
have to maintain backward compatibility to AmigaOS versions earlier
than the one that supports shared libraries?  And then, you remove
this comment:

> -      # Samuel A. Falvo II <address@hidden> reports
> -      # that the semantics of dynamic libraries on AmigaOS, at least up
> -      # to version 4, is to share data among multiple programs linked
> -      # with the same dynamic library.  Since this doesn't match the
> -      # behavior of shared libraries on other platforms, we can't use
> -      # them.

Is this issue now fixed?

Thanks,
Ralf