Re: Building shared libs as dynamically-loaded perl modules

[Jeremy Slade]

Brian May writes:
> >>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Alexandre> And that's the catch.  On some platforms, you just
>     Alexandre> can't link static libraries into shared ones.  Not even
>     Alexandre> if they're PIC.
> 
> Yuck.
> 
>     Alexandre>  Convenience libraries, with the
>     Alexandre> abstraction of ``aliases to sets of objects'', should
>     Alexandre> just work.  It's just that they are not currently
>     Alexandre> installable.  I wish they were.  And I wish convenience
>     Alexandre> libraries could still come in PIC and non-PIC versions,
>     Alexandre> just like object files.  Currently, every time you
>     Alexandre> create a convenience archive, you don't get the non-PIC
>     Alexandre> objects, unless the PIC objects aren't available.
> 
> I agree here. I think convenience libraries need to compile two sets
> of libraries: *.a which contains non-PIC code and *.al which contains
> PIC code.

And they need to be installed so they are usable by other packages --
otherwise there's not a lot of 'convenience' there...

Jeremy
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