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RE: Need more
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Howard Chu |
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RE: Need more |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:31:34 -0700 |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> The other request however, isn't feasable. Libtool needs to
> create non-pic objects when linking static libs, pic objects when
> linking shared libs. Libtool can't wait until link time to decide
> to not link static libs, it has to know at configure time.
> Anyway, what is the problem with what Libtool currently does?
> Couldn't you either configure to not build static, or simply
> ignore the static version?
This is something I've requested and submitted patches for since at least 3
years ago now. No, libtool does NOT need to know at configure time. You can
configure libtool to produce both static and shared objects, then provide a
runtime switch to turn one or the other off during compile and link. I don't
understand why you insist on only allowing the selection at configure time.
This is seriously inconvenient when building a mix of static and dynamic
libraries in a single project, it pretty much requires us to configure two or
more separate copies of libtool just to get the different combinations.
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun
http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc
Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support
- Need more, Schleicher Ralph (LLI), 2002/09/12