Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE

[Charles Wilson]

On 10/25/2011 6:51 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> Do you forsee any issues on Windows with my doing that?

Yes.

> I'm almost certain that modern gcc and hence cygwin and variants will
> continue to work correctly without LT_SCOPE, LTDL_DLL_IMPORT and friends,
> but I have no clue whether vendor compilers that currently work (or at
> least are supported and supposed to work) with the current release are
> relying on LT_SCOPE magic from libltdl.

Modern gcc will be fine on cygwin, mingw, and mingw64.  What will break
completely is any version of Visual Studio, including 2010 -- which I'm
fairly sure is not a "museum piece."  It would be a shame to obviate all
of Peter's work getting libtool itself to work with MSVC, and then to
break that platform's libltdl.dll.

But I'll let Peter take point on this one.

--
Chuck