On 10/27/21, Alex Ameen wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> This is Alex Ameen reporting in from Austin, Texas. I'm a long time GNU
> and `autotools' user who specializes in ELF linking and loading. I'm
> writing you today to introduce myself and announce that I was recently
> approved as the new maintainer of
Thanks for the follow up, this gave me a much clearer idea of the
underlying issue that you're trying to solve. I really do appreciate you
taking the time to help improve `libtool'.
You're absolutely right that `libtool' completely bungles the use of
`--whole-archive' and `--no-whole-archive'
Follow-up Comment #2, patch #9687 (project libtool):
Well, it's now 3 years later, and my memory of details on this is pretty much
gone, but let's try. No warranty on anything here, I'm trying to
reconstruct.
[comment #1 comment #1:]
> Could you maybe elaborate on your use case? Perhaps there's
