Re: partial linking

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> [ reply to two bug reports ]
>
> Hi Andreas and ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ,
>
> I hope that is the right way to address you (this is the first time I
> use cut'n'paste with UTF-8 proper, plus I can barely decipher cyrillic).
>
> * ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2005 
> at 01:48:06PM CET:
> > Am I right, that there is no way to pass additional linker flags when
> > doing partial linking?
>
> Yes, as of now.  Consider it a bug.

Is partial linking a documented libtool feature?  If not, how can 
failure to support partial linking be considered a bug?

Unless libtool can portably support a feature, or there at least can 
be a fallback to producing software that runs, then it should not be 
supported as a libtool feature.

Bob
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