Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-19

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> |
> | We need to get it working better under Windows as well.  It is not
> | currently working at all for me under Cygwin ("unknown error"), and for
> | MinGW (native Windows) libltdl sometimes attempts to load .a files (from
> | the old_library definition from the .la file!), which causes Windows to
> | pop up a pesky dialog window.
>
> I'm only messing with the build system, the ltdl code itself is barely
> changed, so I'd be surprised if these bugs go away.  (Un!)fortunately I
> don't have access to any Windows machines, but I'd be happy to help you
> debug these problems when ltdl is building properly again.

The Cygwin issue is TBD, but for MinGW it is clear that libltdl wants 
to load *something* for each dependency library.  In my problem case, 
the depencency library is linked with another library and that library 
was a static library.  It is not truely needed anymore, but appears 
due to libtool.  Is there a reason for libltdl to attempt to load from 
a .la file's 'old_library' value on *any* platform?

Bob
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