Hi Kevin,
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:37:11PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> I was just informed that the HEAD branch does indeed drop static library
> dependencies when making shared libraries. Perhaps the HEAD branch needs
> to be merged with the ML branch or is it something else?
The core HEAD branch libtool files ltmain.in, ltconfig.in and
libtool.m4 have been merged into the ML branch. However, the ML
branch probably reintroduced the static libs due to the fact it
analyses what the C++ compiler links internally based on output from
"g++ -v," for example. What is most likely happening is that the new
C++ library analysing code is bypassing the code in libtool that would
normally drop the static libs.
Now that I think about it, libtool is only reproducing what the C++
compiler would normally do internally, so why would libtool be wrong?
Specifically, libtool disables the internal library link commands that
the C++ compiler would normally perform automatically, and simply does
the linking itself. Why does it work for the C++ compiler?
-Ossama
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