Re: exclusive static or shared

[Christopher Hulbert]

On 2/15/06, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> * Christopher Hulbert wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:28:59PM CET:
> > On 2/15/06, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's a set of rules.
> > >
> > I guess I didn't make it clear enough that ALL the subdirectories were
> > under the same configure script and doesn't make logical sense to
> > split them.
>
> Oh, you made that clear.  You are not the only reader of this mailing
> list, though, and I thought it to be appropriate to give a general
> answer that is useful for more than one specific purpose.
>
> > > Assuming a package that uses Automake, the developer can control this on
> > > a per-library basis by putting
> > >   -static
>
> > I had shared libraries enables and static disabled from configure.  In
> > passing -static to the 1  library I wanted to be static, it created
> > the library, but without any object files in it.  i.e. it was an empty
> > library and thus resulted in missing symbols later.
>
> Ahh!  Now this may be a bug, I believe.  I cannot reproduce this in a
> test, though.  Can you show me how to reproduce it?  Which Libtool
> version?  How did you configure exactly?  On what $host?  config.log?

Having a problem reproducing it now that I've installed the CVS libtool :(.

>
> > and have created a patch for the PGI wl="" and -link -dll problem I
> > was receiving.  When I get to work I will test these and submit them
> > to the libtool-patches list.
>
> Well, some of the issues arise from the first MSVC patches: a couple of
> times there was the assumption that on win32, non-gcc compiler meant
> MSVC.  You'd need to undo that.  And then go and set the flags in
> _LT_COMPILER_PIC correctly (for both CXX and other tags).  And then you
> can check all the other PORTME instances in libtool.m4 to see whether
> they need adaptation, too.  ;-)

Working on the patch now, I'll send it here If I don't get a
confimation email from libtool-patches before it's done.

>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>