On Mar 25, 2000, Jason Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is what I'll do then. Maybe this could be a future enhancement to
> libtool?
Libtool can't do that in general, since it cannot assume an archive
contains PIC code. However, this gives me an idea: we could have some
mechanism to create an .la file for existing libraries. You'd run
libtool for linking just as usual, but with a flag telling it to not
perform any actual linking, just the creation of the .la files. Then,
it would be trivial to create a convenience library out of an existing
.a file, then use it to create a shared library. But I repeat: this
would only work portably if the archive contained PIC code.
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