Re: Cygwin & libltdl

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Bob,

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:52:52PM CEST:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
> >
> ># 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?

Yes, but it should not hurt to specify the above line on any system.

Cheers,
Ralf