Ralf Habacker wrote: >> >> Any hints or comments ?
Haven't reviewed or tested the patch yet [that'll come later], but I do have an opinion about the adoption timeline...
In the past, when some nifty-new libtool feature depended on a binutils
or gcc improvement, we did the following:
1) push the change into the appropriate cygwin package, and release it
-- this usually involves wheedling cgf <g>Chris - it appears that Fabrizio's release form ("allow PE executables
to have an export table") is on the slow boat. Can we go ahead and have
a new release of binutils with Ralf's (already in CVS) "link directly to
dlls" stuff? Mebbe after the dumper/objdump thing [whatever; I haven't
been paying close attention] is cleared up? 2) after the "curr" binutils or gcc has the feature, wait a month or
so to allow most people to test that release (we don't want to be
caught putting out a new libtool that requires
nifty-binutils-feature-X, only to see the that binutils release
withdrawn for some reason). so, wait...tick tock tick tock
3) about two weeks or so into this "official binutils/gcc vetting
process, release a **test** version of the new-and-improved
libtooltick tock tick tock
4) If all goes well, promote the test libtool to curr.
Note that I didn't say "worry about whether nifty feature X is available in binutils". Given that we're still talking about *CVS* libtool, we can reasonably require that users of CVS libtool (e.g. -devel) have the latest-and-greatest binutils/gcc/etc. We don't need to futz with check-this-thing, check-that-thing. Sheesh, libtool-on-cygwin, even with the latest improvements, is still slow as frozen molasses. We don't need to slow it further, just to deal with something that (IMO) is really a distribution-integration issue.
Now, about your implementation; I'll check that later...
--Chuck
>> 2003-02-27 Ralf Habacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> * libtool.m4 (AC_LIBTOOL_SYS_DYNAMIC_LINKER): Removed >> postinstall_cmds and postuninstall_cmds, >> added shared library to 'library_names_spec'. >> (AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_CXX_CONFIG): Removed import library >> generation from 'archive_cmds'. >> >> * ltmain.sh: (install cygwin/mingw): added installing >> of shared libraries into 'bin' dir >> (uninstall cygwin/mingw): added uninstalling >> of shared libraries >> >> Ralf
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