Misdirected this email the first time around. We need a runtime (not compile time) option in the main/released libtool branch to specify that only static or only shared libraries should be built. The default behavior of building both when a platform supports both is not usable on platforms like Win32 and AIX where the library naming convention doesn't distinguish between dynamic and static libraries. The static and dynamic code overwrites the same library file, leaving an ugly mess. I have raised this issue before. I am aware that there is a libtool branch (the multi language branch) that supports tags which supports this functionality, but that doesn't help since the feature is not in the officially released version. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc -----Original Message----- From: Howard Chu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 1:54 PM To: Kurt D. Zeilenga; Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: libtool update likely breaks modules... It appears that the options to build only static libraries or only shared libraries are still not in the 1.3 branch of libtool. They exist in the multi-language/tagged branch. This is going to be a problem for NT and AIX, unless they've fixed them to use different library names for static and shared libraries. On both NT and AIX, the same suffix is used for both static and shared libraries. The normal libtool behavior is to build both static and shared when a platform supports both. On NT and AIX this will result in unusable libraries because the static and shared code will overwrite each other as compilation and linking progress. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kurt D. Zeilenga > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 1:32 PM > To: Howard Chu > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: libtool update likely breaks modules... > > > At 01:13 PM 10/2/00 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > >Yuck. You're probably right, I'll have to see what's changed in libtool > >1.3.5. > >I believe the "--only-static" flag has been renamed in 1.3.5, we have to > >find > >out what they're calling it now. > > Did you hack 1.3.3? CVSweb seems to indicate you did... > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kurt D. Zeilenga > >> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 1:02 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: libtool update likely breaks modules... > >> > >> > >> I assume the libtool update will breaks modules... > >> Those desiring module support likely should sort > >> out necessary changes... > >> > >> Kurt > >> > _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
