Re: RFC: Building a Shared Library

2003-07-30 Thread Guido Draheim
Just trying to get terminology to the point, note that developers from other platforms will most probably have known the term "linker script", so let's expand on that knowledge without driving away newbies. Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: All these examples ought be backed up with test cases, but I hav

Re: RFC: Building a Shared Library

2003-07-30 Thread Tim Van Holder
> platform dependent parts present in the ".libs" subdirectory. (or "_libs" on platforms where filenames cannot start with a '.')

Re: RFC: Building a Shared Library

2003-07-30 Thread Guido Draheim
Tim Van Holder wrote: platform dependent parts present in the ".libs" subdirectory. (or "_libs" on platforms where filenames cannot start with a '.') s|".libs"|".libs"/"_libs"| :-)=) btw, s|general concept|generalized concept| ? -- guidohttp://AC-Archive.sf.

Re: RFC: Building a Shared Library

2003-07-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 09:30, Guido Draheim wrote: > Just trying to get terminology to the point, note that developers > from other platforms will most probably have known the term > "linker script", so let's expand on that knowledge without > driving away newbies. FYI: I find the term "linker scrip

Re: RFC: Building a Shared Library

2003-07-30 Thread Guido Draheim
Ralf Corsepius wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 09:30, Guido Draheim wrote: Just trying to get terminology to the point, note that developers from other platforms will most probably have known the term "linker script", so let's expand on that knowledge without driving away newbies. FYI: I find the t

Re: RFC: Building a Shared Library

2003-07-30 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Harlan" == Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Harlan> and immediately wondered if one could say: Harlan> lib_LTLIBRARIES = libhello.la Harlan> libhello_la_SOURCES = hello-common.c Harlan> if LINUX Harlan> libhello_la_SOURCES+= hello-linux.c Harlan> else Harlan> libhello_l

Re: Building a Shared Library

2003-07-30 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> Mainly a few minor language nits; Thanks a lot! [...] >> with a message such as >> object `foo.lo' created both with libtool and without Tim> Shouldn't the message be that foo.$(OBJEXT) is created in both cases? Tim> The progra

Re: RFC: Building a Shared Library

2003-07-30 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "gd" == Guido Draheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gd> Just trying to get terminology to the point, note that developers gd> from other platforms will most probably have known the term gd> "linker script", so let's expand on that knowledge without gd> driving away newbies. Hi Guido! Thank

Re: RFC: Building a Shared Library (take 2)

2003-07-30 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Here is a second version of this section, so that we have something cleaner in the archives. Beside including comments from Guido, Harlan, and Tim, I've split the whole section into shorter nodes (it was all on one node), and added a section about `ltmain.sh not found'. (Tim I'll post the Texinfo

Re: delete aclocal.m4? keep generated files on cvs server? enforcespecefic automake/conf version?

2003-07-30 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote: >> Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip autoreconf/autopoint/AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) dicussion] >> > All that does is stop including a complete copy of libintl in y

Re: RFC: Building a Shared Library (take 2)

2003-07-30 Thread Norman Gray
Alexandre, greetings, On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 06:40 PM, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Here is a second version of this section, so that we have This looks great -- it's very clear indeed. As an ignorant user, I'm much more confident that I know what's going on. I have a few comments. --

Re: delete aclocal.m4? keep generated files on cvs server? enforcespecefic automake/conf version?

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:27:37PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote: > >> > All that does is stop including a complete copy of libintl in your > >> > source tree. autopoint still wants to add a few dozen files. The best > >> > solution is to not run autopoint at all, since it doesn't do anything > >> >

Compile with "-g" switch?

2003-07-30 Thread juman
I'm quite new to the autotools but working with a small project. I want to be able to choose that the compilation should compile all files with the "-g" so I can use gdb on the compiled software... My files so far is looking like this: configure.in - AC_INIT(musidab, [0.1]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(

Re: RFC: Building a Shared Library (take 2)

2003-07-30 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Norman" == Norman Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Norman> Alexandre, greetings, Norman> On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 06:40 PM, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: >> Here is a second version of this section, so that we have Norman> This looks great -- it's very clear indeed. As an ignoran

How can i put the .o files in a seperate directory than thesourcefiles?

2003-07-30 Thread Corn Hulio
Hello, I ran into the following problem and couldn't find a solution to it on the net. Basically i setup automake for use with my project and it works fine so far. For except one annoying thing. When i actually "make" it, the object files (.o) and library files get placed in the same direcotry

Re: How can i put the .o files in a seperate directory than thesourcefiles?

2003-07-30 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Corn" == Corn Hulio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Corn> Basically i setup automake for use with my project and it works fine Corn> so far. For except one annoying thing. When i actually "make" it, the Corn> object files (.o) and library files get placed in the same direcotry Corn> wh

Re: Compile with "-g" switch?

2003-07-30 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "juman" == juman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] juman> Any tips of how I easiest disable the compilation from juman> using the -O2 flag temporary? Run ./configure CFLAGS=-g -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz