RE: [Fwd: ltmain.in]

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Matz [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 1:05 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: address@hidden; Bruce Korb; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [Fwd: ltmain.in]
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> > > current g++ version (not to speak of proprietary compilers) which 
> > > need that explicit linking.  Instead a simple "g++ -shared -o 
> > > libbla.so works". Well, yes, those only having a static libstdc++ 
> > > are screwed, but so what?
> >
> > Well that's quite a few of us (cygwin, mingw)!
> 
> Hmm, yes.  But I'm not even sure, you're screwed at all.  
> Does g++ -shared the right thing for you?  I guess not, as 
> g++ anyway can't produce DLL's on it's own, or?  Doesn't it 
> anyway need a special tool?  I.e. does libtool without the 
> pre-/postdeps work on cygwin, or not?

Ah, that's a deeper question, I was simply address the fact that we
don't have a shared libg++.a.

I'll have to look when I get some time at the pre-/postdeps stuff for
cygwin.

Rob