Re: libtool 2 and dsohowto's comments?

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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Hi Tero,

On 4 Sep 2004, at 21:51, Tero Niemela wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > > libtool hackers, as libtool 2 seems to be close, I'd
> > > be intrested to know does it address the problems
> > > mentioned in this well-known paper:
> > >
> > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
> >
> > Care to elucidate?
>
> Section 2.2.6 is all about libtool and its
> -export-symbols option. It ends with:
>
> "The only reason this method is mentioned here is that
> there is hope libtool will learn about converting the
> export lists into the anonymous version maps we have
> seen in the previous section when the GNU linker is
> used.
> At that point libtool will become useful. Until then
> relying on its -export-symbols options is misleading
> at best."

Ah, I see the paper has revved since I last downloaded (and grown
by 12 pages in size!).  Yes, those comments are perfectly reasonable.

> What ever you might think of that, I really recommend
> you to take a look at the paper, it surely has some
> good tips!

Indeed it does.

The -export-symbols option isn't at all fully featured yet, and even
without taking Uli's comments into account needs some work post 
libtool-2.0.
So in answer to your original question, libtool-2.0 certainly won't 
address the current shortcomings, but we will be starting to sort them 
out afterwards.  Feel free to issue a gentle reminder once the dust has 
settled on the release.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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