Peter Rosin <p...@lysator.liu.se> writes: > Russ Allbery skrev 2012-01-07 03:13:
>> Of which there are very few still in existence in terms of widespread >> use, since most systems now use ELF or (like Mac OS X) some other >> object format that doesn't require this. Solaris is definitely not one >> of them. I believe you may still need this on such platforms as AIX or >> HP-UX that use a much different object format, but I'm not at all >> certain of that; it's been years since I've used them. > You are somehow forgetting Windows, probably the most widespread system > of them all. On Windows, you have to specify all libraries at link time > and Libtool helps with that. Indeed, I did forget Windows. (Although while it's the most widespread system of them all, it's a small fraction of the platforms on which people use Libtool on a day-to-day basis.) I wouldn't argue for breaking Libtool's ability to handle such platforms, or for that matter old UNIX platforms that don't support transitive resolution of shared library dependencies. But I think Libtool needs some mechanism to correctly support platforms where adding spurious NEEDED ELF metadata is wrong and causes serious issues for distributions. The pkg-config approach seems to work reasonably well in practice. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
