Re: [FYI] Cleanup of linux pass_all

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> > On 18 Sep 2004, at 08:28, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > > Or maybe adopt an old idea from NetBSD.  Instead of using names like
> > > libfoo.a for archives built with PIC objects, call it libfoo_pic.a.
> > >
> > > Of course, it would take a long time for everyone to adopt that, but
> > > libtool
> > > itself could easily adopt such a scheme, which may help speed up it's
> > > acceptance ...
> >
> > There is no problem with libtool built libraries, since you can tell
> > whether
> > an ar library was made with pic or non-pic objects from the .la file.
> > The difficulty comes when trying to figure out what type of objects
> > non-libtool libraries were built with...
>
> exactly, adding a marker let's you know.

The marker you suggest (special library naming) would cause builds 
which do not know about the marker scheme to fail unless the linker 
hides the special naming.

Bob
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