On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:09:10PM +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > -export-dynamic is to export symbols from an application so that they are > available to runtime loaded code. > > GNU libtool convenience libraries are, as far as I know, only designed to > use the whole archive when they are used in creating shared libraries. They > are built using position independent code for that purpose. While you can > use them when building applications, that is not their purpose.
Then how should one build an executable that exists of source files spread over multiple directories? I thought I even saw examples that use convenience libs for that casse, though I could be wrong. Did I miss something in the documentation of libtool? > There is no way to do what you want, at the moment, using libtool (to my > knowledge). "convenience" libraries are just treated as ordinary libraries > when creating an executable. I suggest that you reference the symbols in > the executable so that your linker will keep them around. If you want to > add this feature to libtool (it sounds like it may be useful)... send > patches. I think it is clear by now (from this thread) that this is actually a needed but missing feature in libtool, so it should be added. However, I am a C++ coder - not a shell script coder; someone else with knowledge of the internals of libtool can do this job a lot more efficiently. Also take into account that that doesn't mean that I am sitting on the beach while that other person is fixing this; I work my ass off around the clock on Open Source, just different packages. Thanks, -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
