Hello,
I agree with Gary that the release of 1.4 should have duplicate deplibs
removed, I also agree with Michael that the patch should be reversed
in MLB Libtool. Currently the patch has rendered Libtool unusable
for several of the libraries in my project, and I would prefer not
to ship a patched version of Libtool when I release later this month.
In the long term there is probably a better solution, but for now
I would prefer it to simply be reversed.
Robert
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From: Michael Matz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:36 PM
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Subject: Re: FYI: duplicate removal patch [Was Re: ok, new libtool for
cygwinupdates]
Ho,
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > IMHO, any duplicate libraries should be removed on
> > the platforms where it is possible.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Unfortunately it is a surprising difficult thing to do properly. My current
> thinking is that we should add a new configure time variable which will turn
> back on duplicate stripping (for *shared* libs only) on hosts where it is
> known to be harmless.
Which should be most hosts, so we would turn this on unless a platform is
known to misbehave.
> I don't know how we will recognize which libraries in the list are
> shared
At least for .la's we can tell easily. For other's the code to check this
already is in place, but not run for pass_all platforms (I once wanted to
change libtool in exactly the now proposed way, but then noticed, that
sharedness wasn't readily available for pass_all's, and I wasn't sure if I
wanted to take the performance hit for doing the file_magic test
unconditionally).
> Considering it took 2 years for anyone to report the bug, but only 2 days for
> people to complain about the fix,
:-)
> I am beginning to think that we should deliberately ship 1.4 with the
> bug reintroduced.
For 1.4 at least I don't have an opinion.
> We can then fix it properly in the next release.
> Pragmaticallym, the half cocked fix in place right now seems to be
> more trouble than it is worth. Comments?
If it would be restored in MLB it would at least make the diffs between
KDE's libtool and CVS-MLB some lines shorter ;-)
Ciao,
Michael.
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