Re: linker option `-version-script' vs. `-retain-symbol-file'

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Ulrich Drepper, in his article on DLLs
> 
>   https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
> 
> (section 2.2.6), criticizes that libtool maps its `--export-symbols'
> option to GNU linker option `-retain-symbol-file'.  Instead, it
> should use `-version-script'.
> 
> This seems to be a valid concern.  Given that libtool already uses
> `-version-script' for the Solaris linker, I wonder what are the
> reasons to not use this code for the GNU linker also.

Oops!  On my GNU/Linux box, libtool already does the right thing.
Sorry for the noise.  It seems that Drepper should rather update his
article :-)


    Werner