Re: libtool, Apache 2.0, AIX
I do agree that it would be nice to have an option to disable the AIX archiving feature. If this function were to be generically described, perhaps it could be described as a non-library option. If you're building a shared library to be linked against on AIX, the normal way is to have an archive with one or more members. If you want a dynamically loadable object which is not going to be linked against, then you really just want .so files, independent of run-time linking. -- Marc Stephenson IBM Server Group - Austin, TX Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTES: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 512-327-5670 T/L 678-3189 ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
Explicit AIX archival enabling
Currently with libtool on AIX, whether or not a shared object is generated as a standalone .so file or as an archive with a .so member is controlled by the use of the run-time linking option in the ld flags. We had a request in November by a user who wanted to generate a standalone .so file with run-time linking disabled, and now we just ran into a case where a user would like to generate an archive with run-time linking enabled. How would we best modify libtool to accept an explicit enabling and disabling of the archival step? An --aix_archive=enable/disable option maybe? Is this an AIX-unique problem? -- Marc Stephenson IBM Server Group - Austin, TX Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTES: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 512-327-5670 T/L 678-3189 ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
