Re: libtool 2 and dsohowto's comments?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Gary V.Vaughan wrote on Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 05:15:03PM CEST:
> On 4 Sep 2004, at 21:51, Tero Niemela wrote:
> 
> >>>http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
*snip*
> >Section 2.2.6 is all about libtool and its
> >-export-symbols option. It ends with:
> >
> >"The only reason this method is mentioned here is that
> >there is hope libtool will learn about converting the
> >export lists into the anonymous version maps we have
> >seen in the previous section when the GNU linker is
> >used.
> >At that point libtool will become useful. Until then
> >relying on its -export-symbols options is misleading
> >at best."
> 
> Ah, I see the paper has revved since I last downloaded (and grown
> by 12 pages in size!).  Yes, those comments are perfectly reasonable.

But current Libtool does use -version-script on linux if ld supports
it..

> The -export-symbols option isn't at all fully featured yet, and even
> without taking Uli's comments into account needs some work post 
> libtool-2.0.

..so this comment about Libtool is not true (any more?).  Sure there are
many other interesting things mentioned in that article.

Regards,
Ralf