Re: libtool shouldn't switch to creating static library if it can't create the shared one under Windows

2011-06-17 Thread Marco atzeri
On 6/17/2011 2:10 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: 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

Re: Shared library versioning

2011-06-17 Thread Lasse Collin
On 2011-06-17 Charles Wilson wrote: On 6/16/2011 2:50 PM, Lasse Collin wrote: Major:minor:revision is easier to understand than current:revision:age, Major:minor:revision artificially entangles package release numbering with API/ABI changes. Typically when one 'goes up' so does the

Re: libtool shouldn't switch to creating static library if it can't create the shared one under Windows

2011-06-17 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2011-06-17 01:15 skrev Bob Friesenhahn: 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

Re: libtool shouldn't switch to creating static library if it can't create the shared one under Windows

2011-06-17 Thread Marco atzeri
On 6/17/2011 4:14 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 6/17/2011 3:46 AM, Marco atzeri wrote: on cygwin lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all is my workaround at configure stage to bypass incorrect libtool detection of system capabilities and to allow shared libs building. It's not about system

Re: libtool shouldn't switch to creating static library if it can't create the shared one under Windows

2011-06-17 Thread Charles Wilson
On 6/17/2011 11:03 AM, Marco atzeri wrote: Sorry Chuck, but I can assure you that I am linking against shared dlls, but the detection is incorrect. Well, then that's a bug. Can you give an example of a foo.a, foo.dll.a, and foo-N.dll (plus the -lfoo incantation) you're using for which the