Re: Libtool API suggestion: LTDL_SHLIB_PRE and/or char* ltdl_map_shared_name(const char* name)

2005-08-23 Thread Dalibor Topic
Albert Chin wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:20:42PM +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: It would be nice if libtool provided a way to either map a short dynamic library name to a full name (say, something -> libsomething.so) or offered an autoconfish way to get the platform-specifc shared library pre

Re: Libtool API suggestion: LTDL_SHLIB_PRE and/or char* ltdl_map_shared_name(const char* name)

2005-08-23 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:20:42PM +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: > It would be nice if libtool provided a way to either map a short dynamic > library name to a full name (say, something -> libsomething.so) or > offered an autoconfish way to get the platform-specifc shared library > prefix, like it do

Libtool API suggestion: LTDL_SHLIB_PRE and/or char* ltdl_map_shared_name(const char* name)

2005-08-23 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi libtoolers, I've just re-implemented a part of kaffe's native shared library loading mechanism to use LTDL_SHLIB_EXT when possible with libtool in GNU Classpath. That was fun, and actually seems to work fine now. So, I figured I could maybe offload a larger part of that onto libtool: The Java

Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD

2005-08-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bob! Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Now, our branch-2-0 testsuite is much inferior, so it's less likely to _find_ some of these bugs. Add to that the fact that I for one do not know of one single bug present in HEAD but not in branch-2-0. This is why I w

Re: TODO for 2.x

2005-08-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:00:50PM CEST: Is there a public record of these? TODO file? Search string for the list archives? next mail in this thread? ;-) The following is not very well ordered, not very well cross-referenced, has nonempty ove

Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD

2005-08-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hallo Ralf, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I believe you just contradicted yourself. I'm good at that :-) But you have to really pay attention to catch me out! :-p If you put big patches into a release branch, you're by definition _not_ stabilizing it! More to the point: both the recent commits

Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD

2005-08-23 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Now, our branch-2-0 testsuite is much inferior, so it's less likely to _find_ some of these bugs. Add to that the fact that I for one do not know of one single bug present in HEAD but not in branch-2-0. This is why I would branch the next stable off

Re: Call for help: Solaris C++ and Sun CC

2005-08-23 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: Call for help: Solaris C++ and Sun CC, Albert Chin said...: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:46:13PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: So I looked around. I've found this documentation http://docs-pdf.sun.com/806-7982/806-7982.pdf (page 21): | The Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ compiler

Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD

2005-08-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:03:20PM CEST: > Albert Chin wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:11:48AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> > >>So my point is: get HEAD stable now, then branch off and make 2.59/1.9.6 > >>compatible there. Then bootstrap the release with the coup

Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD

2005-08-23 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 03:03:20PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Albert Chin wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:11:48AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >>So my point is: get HEAD stable now, then branch off and make > >>2.59/1.9.6 compatible there. Then bootstrap the release with the > >>c

Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD

2005-08-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Albert Chin wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:11:48AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Albert Chin wrote on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:41:58AM CEST: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:54:59PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Ralf Wildenhues wrote on libtool-patches: I kept quiet a while ago when Bob fir

Re: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD

2005-08-23 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:11:48AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Albert Chin wrote on Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:41:58AM CEST: > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:54:59PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote on libtool-patches: > > > >I kept quiet a while ago when Bob first suggest

TODO for 2.x (was: branch-2-0 vs CVS HEAD)

2005-08-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:00:50PM CEST: > > Is there a public record of these? TODO file? Search string for the > list archives? next mail in this thread? ;-) The following is not very well ordered, not very well cross-referenced, has nonempty overlap with the in-tree T