Re: Convenieve libraries and applications.

[Peter O'Gorman]

Carlo Wood wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:00:00PM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:49:29PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> >
> > > I think this is what the -export-dynamic flag is for.

-export-dynamic is to export symbols from an application so that they are 
available to runtime loaded code.

GNU libtool convenience libraries are, as far as I know, only designed to 
use the whole archive when they are used in creating shared libraries. They 
are built using position independent code for that purpose. While you can 
use them when building applications, that is not their purpose.

There is no way to do what you want, at the moment, using libtool (to my 
knowledge). "convenience" libraries are just treated as ordinary libraries 
when creating an executable. I suggest that you reference the symbols in the 
executable so that your linker will keep them around. If you want to add 
this feature to libtool (it sounds like it may be useful)... send patches.

Peter
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