Re: flat namespaces redux

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:23:04AM +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 12:01  AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> >>
> >>cc -multiply_defined suppress -prebind blah || cc -flat_namespace 
> >>-undefined suppress blah
> >
> >1. libkdeui's LIBADD is "-lkdecore"
> >2. the first half of the link complains that -lqt-mt is indirectly 
> >referenced
> >3. it builds the library flat, and continues on
> >
> >when what *should* happen is it dies at #2, and we add -lqt-mt to 
> >libkdeui's LIBADD like it should be.
> 
> Why? An option to stop if two_level namespace can't be built, I can see 
> as a good thing for people porting stuff to darwin, however some stuff 
> is quite happy being flat, even if it only missing the usual environ 
> symbol, and imo, libtool shouldn't die by default.
> 
> The default should be to continue if possible unless told otherwise, 
> the fewer people who have to add custom flags and options the better.

On AIX, libtool does something special if LDFLAGS has "-brtl" in it.
Can something be done similarly for OSX to support the two-level
namespace (by inspecting CPPFLAGS or CFLAGS or some other variable at
./configure time)? Or do you need a libtool option to do what you
want?

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albert chin (address@hidden)