* Ryan McDougall wrote on Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:51:41AM CEST: > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 04:34 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > The Libtool manual has more details about this (but it's arguably a bit > > cryptic about convenience archives). I'm not sure what you need to > > know. > > Since Im leaning to this method, Id like to investigate just what sort > of inefficiencies Im going to incur this way.
You will have the overhead of one additional archiving step (ar + ranlib) and, on systems where one cannot pass whole archives to the linker to put in shared libraries (e.g., -Wl,--whole-archive with GNU ld), libtool will also extract that convenience archive one by one again. > Basically I don't know a whole lot about the details of dynamic > linking, so Id like to learn whats happening, if possible/reasonable. Hmm. Not sure what to recommend here. You can read the Libtool manual, after reading this nice (if not a bit old) book: http://www.iecc.com/linker/ > > You should not forget the libtool link flag -module (libA_la_LDFLAGS). > > This sounds interesting, is there a place I can read about this modules > bit? http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual#Building-modules Cheers, Ralf
