Re: Cygwin & libltdl

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
> My guess is that the solution, at least until libtool is improved to not
> explicitly mark libltdl symbols for export when compiling libltdl as a
> convenience library, is to either also mark all your symbols for export, or to
> add this to your Makefile.am (which is what I did for M4):
>
> # The -export-symbols-regex ".*" is a hack to work around the
> # fact that on cygwin, the convenience library libltdl exports symbols,
> # which effectively disables the auto-exporting of all other symbols.
> # Revisit this if libtool on cygwin improves.
> # See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2007-02/msg00062.html
> AM_LDFLAGS     += -export-symbols-regex ".*"

Am I correct in assuming that this issue is entirely specific to 
Microsoft Windows and does not apply to other operating systems?

Bob
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