Darwin once more

[Max Horn]

Hi there,

two problems with libtool HEAD-cvs:

1) with regard to dlpreopen, there is yet another quoting problem. 
The libtool file generated from HEAD-cvs contains three lines like 
this:

global_symbol_to_c_name_address="sed -n -e 's/^: \([^ ]*\) \$/ 
{\\"\1\\", (lt_ptr) 0},/p' -e 's/^[BCDEGRST] \([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\)\$/ 
{\"\2\", (lt_ptr) \&\2},/p'"


Note the bad \\" in there ... I do not enough to give a fix for 
libtool.m4, though :/ BUt if there is anything i can do for testing, 
let me know. Oh yeah, fixing that problem in libtool manually makes 
libtool pass the various demo-* tests, which otherwise fail.



2) in libtool.m4, HEAD cvs, line 4685, look like this:

      _LT_AC_TAGVAR(whole_archive_flag_spec, $1)='-all_load $convenience'

This particular line, as I know realize, is the source of various 
problem I have with libtool on darwin. It does not make any sense to 
me, as the -all_load command does not take any parameters, too. The 
current line does cause problems with linking frequently, though. To 
quote the ld man page on OS X:

       -all_load
              Loads  all  members  of  static  archive libraries.
              This  option  does  not  apply  to  dynamic  shared
              libraries.


Fine; but if you just specify $conveniance there, then in various 
cases it will pass the libs in there *twice*, which may work on other 
systems (or may not :), but on darwin it definitly fails, the 
compiler does not like this behaviour.

So I tried just dropping the $conveniance part, and that worked fine 
in one test case; but I think somebody should think about this who 
knows more.




Max
--
-----------------------------------------------
Max Horn
Software Developer

email: <mailto:address@hidden>
phone: (+49) 6151-494890