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Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE
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Gary V. Vaughan |
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Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE |
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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:17:16 +0700 |
Hi Peter,
On 25 Oct 2011, at 18:12, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan skrev 2011-10-25 12:51:
>> I note that no other GNU projects that I'm aware of jump through all the
>> __declspec hoops that the libltdl API tries to provide through LT_SCOPE.
>> Is any of this stuff still required on any non-museum Windows compiler
>> that would break if I removed it?
>>
>> Here's what I'm proposing to do for the upcoming libtool alpha release:
>>
>> 1. Remove all traces of LT_SCOPE, and just use plain 'extern' in
>> public header files.
>> 2. Remove the code for setting and passing LTDL_DLL_IMPORT.
>> 3. I can then safely eliminate $prefix/include/libltdl/lt_system.h,
>> and simplify the public headers for libltdl considerably.
>>
>> Do you forsee any issues on Windows with my doing that?
>>
>> 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.
>
> I'm fairly certain that removing LT_SCOPE wholesale would break Libtool
> in one way or the other for Microsoft Visual C. Please don't do it
> without checking the effects on the testsuite first.
>
> I can check if you provide a patch.
Awesome, thanks.
I put up a set of tarballs from a make distcheck of the 2.4.2 release with
a minimal patch that simply forces LT_SCOPE to always be extern. You can get
them here:
http://vaughan.pe/libtool/libtool-2.4.2-no-lt-scope.tar.gz
http://vaughan.pe/libtool/libtool-2.4.2-no-lt-scope.tar.xz
Obviously they passed a full distcheck on my machine, and I'm quietly hoping
there'll be no regressions on your machines compared to the raw 2.4.2
release I put out recently. If so, that covers point 1 of my original post,
and I can seriously tidy up the installed files from libltdl and start
thinking more about point 2 as well.
Let me know how you get on.
Cheers,
--
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
- Obsoleting LT_SCOPE, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/10/25
- Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE, Peter Rosin, 2011/10/25
- Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE,
Gary V. Vaughan <=
- Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE, Peter Rosin, 2011/10/25
- Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE, Charles Wilson, 2011/10/25
- Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE, Peter Rosin, 2011/10/25
- Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE, Peter Rosin, 2011/10/31
- Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE, Peter Rosin, 2011/10/31
Re: Obsoleting LT_SCOPE, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/10/25