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Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2


Reini Urban wrote:

> Sure. Fixing libtool of course.
> Mixing static and dynamic libs should be possible.

I think you're missing the point of why libtool disallows it: not
because it won't work in a specific instance, but because it is not
portable.  There is no fix for the fact that on some systems it's
impossible to link a shared library that contains non-PIC code, and that
on those same systems static libraries are built non-PIC.  The core idea
behind libtool is to abstract away these sort of details, so if it made
an exception and allowed this to succeed on some systems but refused on
those systems where it's impossible then it would fail to meet this most
basic goal.  In other words: there's nothing to fix.

Why can't the libWin32CORE library just be shared?

Brian

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