Re: why do we even want shared libraries anyway>

2006-04-23 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 13:01 -0600, Ed Hartnett wrote: > Howdy all! Hi Ed, > Why do we want shared libraries anyway? Whether you want them, or not, depends on what you're doing. ;) If you're talking about the typical scientific desktop app: because they help save resources like memory, disk spac

Re: why do we even want shared libraries anyway>

2006-04-23 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ed Hartnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given the cost of disk space, why put up with all the complexity of > building shared libraries? Why not just keep using static > libraries. If the disk runs out of space, spend $200 on a new disk > drive. That's true, but there's also the cost of R

why do we even want shared libraries anyway>

2006-04-23 Thread Ed Hartnett
Howdy all! I am involved in several libraries used by scientists. These libraries are mostly building shared libraries, or, if not, then it's planned to do so future versions. I am caught up in this wave of progress (if that is what it is), but I do not have a good answer to the question: Why d

Re: Libtool 2.1a ported to SkyOS, how to test?

2006-04-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Robert Szeleney wrote on Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:22:05PM CEST: > > > >>/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. > >>-g -O2 -c -o ltdl.lo ltdl.c > >>mkdir .libs > >>rm: cannot remove directory `': Is a directory > Fixed. This was a kernel bug when trying to del

Re: Libtool 2.1a ported to SkyOS, how to test?

2006-04-23 Thread Robert Szeleney
> OK, first thing here: compiling ltdl.lo has these spurious errors: /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c -o ltdl.lo ltdl.c mkdir .libs rm: cannot remove directory `': Is a directory gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c ltdl.c -DPIC -

Re: Libtool 2.1a ported to SkyOS, how to test?

2006-04-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Robert, * Robert Szeleney wrote on Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:52:44AM CEST: > > Ok, made progress. ./bootstrap for libtool-1.5.22 works now. (After > fixing the inital stack creation routine and tweaking gcc to return the > default library directory for 'gcc -print-search-dirs) Ah. Interestin

Re: Libtool 2.1a ported to SkyOS, how to test?

2006-04-23 Thread Robert Szeleney
Hi! Ok, made progress. ./bootstrap for libtool-1.5.22 works now. (After fixing the inital stack creation routine and tweaking gcc to return the default library directory for 'gcc -print-search-dirs) But it looks like that there is a misconfiguration in the skyos specific settings I just adde