Re: Darwin once more

[Max Horn]

At 1:35 Uhr +0200 22.09.2001, Max Horn wrote:
[...]

> 2) in libtool.m4, HEAD cvs, line 4685, look like this:
>
>       _LT_AC_TAGVAR(whole_archive_flag_spec, $1)='-all_load $convenience'
>
> This particular line, as I know realize, is the source of various 
> problem I have with libtool on darwin. It does not make any sense to 
> me, as the -all_load command does not take any parameters, too. The 
> current line does cause problems with linking frequently, though. To 
> quote the ld man page on OS X:
>
>        -all_load
>               Loads  all  members  of  static  archive libraries.
>               This  option  does  not  apply  to  dynamic  shared
>               libraries.
>
>
> Fine; but if you just specify $conveniance there, then in various 
> cases it will pass the libs in there *twice*, which may work on 
> other systems (or may not :), but on darwin it definitly fails, the 
> compiler does not like this behaviour.
>
> So I tried just dropping the $conveniance part, and that worked fine 
> in one test case; but I think somebody should think about this who 
> knows more.

OK, I just run a make clean & make check, and it turns out that this 
will cause the cdemo to fail; so it is not a working solution :/

So sometimes, this is needed to add in objects that are not listed 
otherwise; but sometimes it causes stuff to be linked twice. Seems to 
indicate to me that something more fundamental is wrong, no?


Max
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