Re: MSW DLLs support in libtool

[Nick Bowler]

On 2/12/16, Evgeny Grin <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 12.02.2016 0:14, Nick Bowler wrote:
>> On 2/11/16, Evgeny Grin <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> * change default shared lib mode from "on" to "auto" or "try" and fail
>>> if shared lib cannot be created when mode is "on". With that logic
>>> "make" will do what requested instead of guessing that "something may be
>>> useful even if not requested". Alternatively - introduce new LT_INIT()
>>> flag "no-fallback-to-static".
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>> This option already exists.  It is called "disable-static".
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> Actually, no. See:

Just to be sure:

> $ libtool --version
> libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.6
> Written by Gordon Matzigkeit, 1996

Here you are running libtool installed on the system (by path lookup)...

[...]
> /bin/sh ../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -fvisibility=hidden
[...]

...here you are running a copy of libtool bundled with a package.
They are not necessarily the same version.

It would be better to provide a test case that others can run.

Cheers,
  Nick