libtool convenience libs problem
Gerrit P. Haase
freeweb@nyckelpiga.de
Fri Oct 1 12:22:00 GMT 2004
Hi Reini,
>> There is also a thread n the archives where Charles explains why the
>> pass_all flag is not default for Cygwin.
> yes, that would be interesting to read, because I'm wondering what
> prevents libtool on cygwin to ignore the duplication of efforts
> providing PIC (in .libs) and nonPIC objects, where both are effectively
> the same. And then refuses to build on false assumptions.
> (PIC != non-PIC on cygwin)
> Maybe some src defines are in effect for the .libs/ which could hurt.
> (or did hurt before the improved binutils)
> So far I found nothing, but charles has a lot of messages in the archive
> to explore. I'll start with the libtool demo's from the src packages.
> mdemo-shared looks promising.
Search for 'pass_all +Charles' via Google.
> for now I live this ugly workaround:
> extract the objects from the static lib,
> copy them (as fake) to the PIC objects, and build my module.
That is likely the same as if you would use pass_all, but pass_all is
cheap, just a small fix in libtool.m4 or if you prefer to not modify
system libs then fix it in aclocal.m4 before running autoconf.
Gerrit
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