libtool-patches
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [PATCH 01/10] Add -shortname option.


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] Add -shortname option.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:46:33 -0600
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/3.1.9-0.39.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.9

On 04/15/2011 06:59 AM, KO Myung-Hun wrote:
> OS/2 limits a length of a DLL base name up to 8 characters. If a name of
> a shared library is longer than 8 characters, OS/2 cannot load it. So the
> option to specify a short name is needed.
> ---
>  NEWS                       |    1 +
>  doc/libtool.texi           |    4 ++++
>  libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh |   11 +++++++++++
>  libltdl/m4/libtool.m4      |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 90d14b7..566eeb1 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ New in 2.4.2 2011-??-??: git version 2.4.1a, Libtool team:
>    - The --with-pic configure option now supports a list of comma-separated
>      package names.  This can be used to build some static libraries with PIC
>      objects while building others with non-PIC objects.
> +  - Added -shortname option to specify a short name for a DLL (OS/2 only)

Long options should start with --, not -, per GNU coding conventions
(gcc is an exception, but libtool should not be).

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]