Today, Ricardo Fabbri wrote: >On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >> Do you mean by "self-contained" that it should even contain the C library >> functions it uses? >> > >I don't want the C library and system libraries to be in the "self-contained" >library. I will require the user to have libc6, for example. What I do not >want is non-programmers having to install or compile a whole list of not very >common dependencies (which is numerous for my project).
Why not just build a tarball of all the dependencies - at least that way you don't have to worry about building a .a from PIC objects and building one big .so from it. You also don't have to worry about future comaptibility - just because it works now doesn't mean it always will... Regards, Philip Willoughby Systems Programmer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK -- echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] | tr "bizndfohces" "pwgd9ociaku" Why reinvent the wheel? . . . . . . . . . Because we can make it rounder... _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool