Simultaneous pic and non-pic convenience libs [Was: [RFC] New library type needed?]

2007-03-31 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: I'd still like to be able to build my convenience library as both pic and non-pic tho. And I still want to prevent libiberty.a(non-pic) from getting the --whole-archive treatment when it comes to libbfd.a. ... Several systems simply don't allow to mix PIC and non-PIC

Re: [RFC] New library type needed?

2007-03-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Here's a review based on the question how such a concept could be expressed portably. I don't see how something like this would be of great help if it could not be made to gracefully decay into something still usable, on at least a useful set of platforms if not all of

Re: [RFC] New library type needed?

2007-03-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: I completely understand the motivation for the meat of this, speaking in the hypothetical sense, but why would you ever want to build libbfd shared? I did --enable-shared at the top level, and bfd is the first one that failed. I'm really more interested in the runtime

Re: [RFC] New library type needed?

2007-03-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Charles, Here's a review based on the question how such a concept could be expressed portably. I don't see how something like this would be of great help if it could not be made to gracefully decay into something still usable, on at least a useful set of platforms if not all of them. *

Re: [RFC] New library type needed?

2007-03-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Charles Wilson wrote: I have a library that I want to build shared (let's call it libbfd). It depends on a portability library that is currently built as a non-libtool, static library (let's call it libiberty). g I completely understand the motivation for the meat of this, speaking in the