Re: How does libtool decide which so to link against?

2010-10-25 Thread dherring
Giles Anderson wrote: > I have upgraded Boost and find that I have to re-link my own executables. > Should I have to? I dont really want to. Boost API changes generally involve more than a simple relink. Their data structures and templates frequently change, often for bugfixes. In fact, many boo

Linking a lib with different shared and static names

2007-11-08 Thread dherring
Hi, I'm trying to link to a library that uses different names for the static and shared versions. Example: libABC.so and libABCz.a Can someone suggest a way to express this to libtool? Just passing -lABC fails for static links; -lABCz does the wrong thing on dynamic links. Thanks, Daniel _

Re: C++ Plugins and virtual destructors.

2007-11-13 Thread dherring
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Daniel Herring wrote on Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:46:55AM CET: >> >> Here's a relevant post from the GCC list; it mentions how to work around >> some dlopen difficulties (including RTTI, exceptions, custom >> new/delete). >> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2007-10/msg00248.h

Apple "libtool" [Re: Library tripled in size with GCC 4.2]

2008-10-16 Thread dherring
Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Gorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> $/Developer/usr/bin/libtool -V >> Apple Computer, Inc. version cctools-698.1 > > You are wrong here. What Apple calls libtool has nothing to do with GNU libtool. You'll probably have more luck if you ask in a M

Re: removal of .la files from Debian and a possible solution to the libtool shared libs problem

2009-08-25 Thread dherring
Mike wrote: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 12:42:19 Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >> Relying on the OS's implicit dependency features seems to be an >> >> approach which is fraught with peril. >> > >> > why ? >> >> When viewing the issue through Linux package-

Re: libtool, llvm-gcc, failing C++ exceptions

2010-01-05 Thread dherring
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > While it has not been proven yet, I am suspecting that the failing C++ > exceptions have something to do with the way that libtool links these > modules. > > Does anyone have ideas about this? Do all exceptions fail, or just some exceptions? For example, does something li