* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:03:35PM CET: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >>Am I right, that there is no way to pass additional linker flags when > >>doing partial linking? > > > >Yes, as of now. Consider it a bug. > > Is partial linking a documented libtool feature? If not, how can > failure to support partial linking be considered a bug?
Well, it is (as was already reported). > Unless libtool can portably support a feature, or there at least can > be a fallback to producing software that runs, then it should not be > supported as a libtool feature. Well, to be honest, I don't know too much about how portable that is. And in any case, it's a Libtool documentation bug to only mention partial linking in 3 lines and be done with it -- no limitations, no explanation of what it does. At least we should warn against it if it is not usable or portable. I investigated a little bit: - every system I checked which has shared objects also has `ld -r' (but exact semantics may vary), even static-only systems have it. - it's not portable to do for neither PIC nor non-PIC objects. - C++ might be a problem. More info appreciated. As I see it, we should probably just warn against it and recommend convenience libraries. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
