Re: [shell functions, was RE: solving of name conflicts inincluded.a]

2002-12-06 Thread Robert Boehne
Tom, Are you volunteering to convert the shell functions in CVS Libtool into non-shell-function code? I would like to see this discussion go in a different direction. I would like to see a list of the platforms known to NOT have shell functions in their Bourne shells. My point is that there are

Re: libtool & MULTILIB

2002-12-06 Thread Kevin Ryde
Steve Ellcey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Should I just tell the user to do two builds, > with different options and different install directories? For what it's worth, in GMP that's what we've done. In principle there could be different libc functions and stuff in different ABIs, so a fresh r

libtool & MULTILIB

2002-12-06 Thread Steve Ellcey
I have a general opensource packaging/build question that is sort of related to libtool (I think) and was hoping someone could answer it or provide me with a pointer. For an opensource package that consists of one or more libraries and that uses configure, automake, libtool, and the usual packagin

Problem : strange warning

2002-12-06 Thread Pierre
Hi, When trying to build some apps, I got this : [...] checking dynamic linker characteristics... Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes *** Warning: the command libtool uses to detect shared libraries, *** /usr/bin/file, produces output that libtool cannot recognize. *

Re: an easy question

2002-12-06 Thread Guido Draheim
Jon Nall wrote: why do .la files have to store hard-coded paths of the .so files they reference? why aren't the names enough as ld.so should be able to query it's cache of library directories at runtime? why not? - in other words, what's your actual problem with it... i realize libtool runs o

Re: an easy question

2002-12-06 Thread Philip Willoughby
Today, Jon Nall wrote: > >why do .la files have to store hard-coded paths of the .so files they >reference? why aren't the names enough as ld.so should be able to query >it's cache of library directories at runtime? > >i realize libtool runs on lots of OSes, and maybe my question is >linux-centric

an easy question

2002-12-06 Thread Jon Nall
why do .la files have to store hard-coded paths of the .so files they reference? why aren't the names enough as ld.so should be able to query it's cache of library directories at runtime? i realize libtool runs on lots of OSes, and maybe my question is linux-centric. but i really would like to un