RE: another darwin patch

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Howard Chu wrote:
> If the idea is for libtool to be a general purpose tool, then it should allow
> everything that the underlying platform allows. You can try do advise against
> doing something stupid, but don't get in the way of developers who know what
> they want it to do.

The idea is for libtool to enable the *portable* creation of shared
libraries on as many platforms as possible.  If a feature can not be
supported in a portable fashion, then it is not supported at all.

Linking against static libraries while creating shared libraries is
not portable.

Bob
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