Jeff Trawick wrote: > > Robert Boehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In Libtool we allow for either to be built, the latter being > > created when -Wl,-brtl is added to LDFLAGS during configure. > > From my perspective, I only get to choose we whether or not I do > run-time linking... I don't get to choose what format shared > object/library I get. And these are orthogonal issues. > > Since run-time linking is a set of behaviors that affects how the > applications and libraries interact and no mere file storage/naming > issue, it is clear that to run-time link or not to run-time link is > the choice really being made. That's why I shudder when I am told > that the way to get libtool to use pure libfoo.so on AIX is to simply > add "-Wl,-brtl". It hides the fact that apps can start working > differently. > > But I admit that I need to read all available doc on run-time linking > and then go re-do the conversations I've had in the past with me > better able to ask why run-time linking isn't the right thing.
Jeff: I'm definitely amenable to making changes to libtool, but I would like to understand why you get core dumps. I *thought* I understood shared libs under AIX, and the only thing that prevents Libtool from doing the "right thing" is that perhaps I don't. ;) So if you would like to send me all the details off of the list I would like to get to the bottom of this. IIRC, someone had proposed using -brtl by default, but someone at IBM was vehemently opposed to it. Thanks, Robert -- Robert Boehne Software Engineer Ricardo Software Chicago Technical Center TEL: (630)789-0003 x. 238 FAX: (630)789-0127 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
