Re: static lib with libtool 1.5

[Patrick Welche]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:23:06PM +0200, Jeremie LE HEN wrote:
>     IMO, the user is confused while reading this.  Furthermore, the
>     first statement is wrong in regard to the example on the NetBSD box
>     (burger) :
>         burger$ libtool compile gcc -g -O -c foo.c
>         mkdir .libs
>         gcc -g -O -c foo.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
>         gcc -g -O -c foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1
>         burger$
> 
>     Note that in this cas, the .lo control file is indeed created
>     silently as stated in the second sentence I pointed out.  The PIC
>     library is stored in .libs/foo.o, not in foo.lo as the first
>     statement let understand.

Just to check, I just tried this:

quartz% uname -s
NetBSD
quartz% libtool compile gcc -g -O -c foo.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -g -O -c foo.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
libtool: compile:  gcc -g -O -c foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1
quartz% ls -laR
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  3 prlw1  wheel   512 Aug 11 14:02 .
drwxrwxrwt  5 root   wheel   512 Aug 11 14:02 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 prlw1  wheel   512 Aug 11 14:02 .libs
-rw-r--r--  1 prlw1  wheel    53 Aug 11 14:02 foo.c
-rw-r--r--  1 prlw1  wheel   290 Aug 11 14:02 foo.lo
-rw-r--r--  1 prlw1  wheel  2116 Aug 11 14:02 foo.o

./.libs:
total 10
drwxr-xr-x  2 prlw1  wheel   512 Aug 11 14:02 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 prlw1  wheel   512 Aug 11 14:02 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 prlw1  wheel  2116 Aug 11 14:02 foo.o
quartz% file foo.lo foo.o .libs/foo.o
foo.lo:      ASCII English text
foo.o:       ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not 
stripped
.libs/foo.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not 
stripped
quartz% libtool --version
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool 1.1984 2005/07/11 12:11:25) 2.1a
...
quartz% diff -s foo.o .libs/foo.o
Files foo.o and .libs/foo.o are identical


So your comment is correct. I just wonder why there are two foo.o files.

Cheers,

Patrick