[Note the crosspost. Yep, this is an utterly messy problem. Yep, I'm fed up of having to deal with a bazillion versions of that huge nightmare called libtool which does never work right on some OSes...]
I'm not sure kde makes consistent use of -module and -avoid-version with respect to libtool. I think I will need to introduce a new version_type specifically for OpenBSD. The issue is that all shared libraries *must* be of the form libfoobar.so.<major>.<minor> otherwise, -lfoobar won't work. And no, we won't change that. We use that model even on ELF systems, it's perfectly sane and working. Now, plugins are another story. A module that is just meant to be dlopened can be named module.so, without any problem. It becomes interesting, because style plugins (for instance) can either be built correctly as plugin.so, which gets libraries to break (e.g., the dcopserver `module' is built with -module -avoid-version, and then linked with -ldcopserver -> ouch), or built incorrectly, as libplugin.so.0.0, and then libraries work (but qt3 doesn't find the plugins until patched to handle *.so.*, and it might be that libltdl and other parts of kde do not as well). I really would like to know what the solution is. Specifically, what's the deal with -module -avoid-version ? Either I need to have a way to differentiate with stuff that will be used with dlopen, or linked in as a library, or if I don't, things are going to be very, very messy with respect to symbolic links. My understanding of the problem so far is that kde abuses -module -avoid-version, and that, correctly, I should get libfoo.so.0.0 if -avoid-version is specified, and foo.so is -avoid-version -module is specified... then a module is only used through dlopen, and so for. Am I correct ? How to go about fixing libtool ? Looks to me that the best way is to have version_type=openbsd, and handle things quite a lot like sunos, except for this very important thing. _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
