Re: libtool shouldn't switch to creating static library if it can't create the shared one under Windows

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> I.e. it created a shared library with undefined symbols without any
> problems because it never actually passed -no-undefined to g++/ld.

In actual practice, it seems difficult or impossible to build programs 
under systems like Linux with -no-undefined.  I tried this before, but 
glibc got in the way since it depends on some symbols which are 
never/rarely defined.  Under Linux, programs run just fine with 
undefined symbols as long as they are never accessed.

> I have no idea whether -no-undefined is supposed to work like this but in
> any case it seems to me that it's perfectly useless right now. It's not

Not quite useless, but not pedantically useful either.

Bob
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