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Re: Several questions about libtool
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: Several questions about libtool |
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Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:29:39 -0800 |
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Peter Rosin <address@hidden> writes:
> Russ Allbery skrev 2012-01-07 03:13:
>> Of which there are very few still in existence in terms of widespread
>> use, since most systems now use ELF or (like Mac OS X) some other
>> object format that doesn't require this. Solaris is definitely not one
>> of them. I believe you may still need this on such platforms as AIX or
>> HP-UX that use a much different object format, but I'm not at all
>> certain of that; it's been years since I've used them.
> You are somehow forgetting Windows, probably the most widespread system
> of them all. On Windows, you have to specify all libraries at link time
> and Libtool helps with that.
Indeed, I did forget Windows. (Although while it's the most widespread
system of them all, it's a small fraction of the platforms on which people
use Libtool on a day-to-day basis.)
I wouldn't argue for breaking Libtool's ability to handle such platforms,
or for that matter old UNIX platforms that don't support transitive
resolution of shared library dependencies. But I think Libtool needs some
mechanism to correctly support platforms where adding spurious NEEDED ELF
metadata is wrong and causes serious issues for distributions. The
pkg-config approach seems to work reasonably well in practice.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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