On 2011-06-14 Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Lasse Collin wrote:
> >http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/specialtopics.html
>
> If this web page text is correct, then I agree that libtool is doing
> the wrong thing for OpenBSD. But of course we should search for any
> additional in
Hello,
I've recently noticed that libtool (2.4, as included in Cygwin 1.7) could
decide to create a static library instead of a shared one it was asked to
create if it couldn't do the latter. Here is an example of a message where
libtool explains why it does it itself:
... during libxml
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
different functions (_foo vs _imp__foo). So IMO creating a static library
when libtool was requested to build a DLL is never the right thing to do
under Windows. And while I hesitate to call this behaviour a bug because it
is clearly intentional, I'd like
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:36:24 -0500 (CDT) Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
BF> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
BF> > different functions (_foo vs imp_foo). So IMO creating a static library
BF> > when libtool was requested to build a DLL is never the right thing to do
BF> > under Windows. And whil
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
BF>
BF> In what way was libtool specifically requested to build a DLL?
I'm not sure about the details (please keep in mind that we're speaking
about libxml2 here and not my own project) but configure[*] is passed
--disable-static option and AFAIK this is
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:15:01 -0500 (CDT) Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
BF> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
BF> > BF>
BF> > BF> In what way was libtool specifically requested to build a DLL?
BF> >
BF> > I'm not sure about the details (please keep in mind that we're speaking
BF> > about libxml2
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
Yes, sorry, I keep forgetting about auto-import feature, I guess I'm just
too accustomed to the "traditional" Windows way and have trouble accepting
auto-import magic. It's true that projects using auto-import could live
with falling back to a static lib
On 6/16/2011 2:50 PM, Lasse Collin wrote:
> About -version-info vs. -version-number: *If* it turns out that all
> operating systems supported by Libtool should use a versioning style
> that is essentially the same as version_type=linux, could
> -version-number become the recommended option to se
