Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:46:33PM CEST: > On 04/15/2011 06:59 AM, KO Myung-Hun wrote: > > OS/2 limits a length of a DLL base name up to 8 characters. If a name of > > a shared library is longer than 8 characters, OS/2 cannot load it. So the > > option to specify a short name is needed.
> > --- a/NEWS > > +++ b/NEWS > > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ New in 2.4.2 2011-??-??: git version 2.4.1a, Libtool team: > > - The --with-pic configure option now supports a list of comma-separated > > package names. This can be used to build some static libraries with > > PIC > > objects while building others with non-PIC objects. > > + - Added -shortname option to specify a short name for a DLL (OS/2 only) > > Long options should start with --, not -, per GNU coding conventions > (gcc is an exception, but libtool should not be). libtool traditionally has been an exception too, however. I'm not sure it's worthwhile moving from that at this point. Other than that, sorry about my lack of review; now that the copyright issue has been pending-cleared I should put it higher up in my todo list ... Thanks, Ralf
