Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >4. Not sure what to do about the libtool problem you and Paul talked
>> > about on the list some time ago.
>> Apparently the interlibrary dependency functionality used to be
>> included, but was removed.
Because it would create broken libraries on several systems. It would
work on GNU/Linux and Solaris2, but not on other systems.
A useful concept introduced in libtool 1.2b, that may be used to work
around this problem, is `utility libraries'. We could create several
utility libraries then build a single shared library from them. This
works and is portable across all systems libtool supports.
>> Hopefull the code is still there and could be easily re-enabled.
>> (Not an ideal solution, but one that would work).
It would not! That's why it was disabled in the first place.
> I personally think whatever code that was there should be enabled
> simply because something is better than nothing
Do you like to handle bug reports? Do you like when people say your
system does just crashes? I don't :-)
That's what we'd get on most non-Linux systems if we enabled the
broken feature and tested it only on Linux and Solaris2. :-(
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Alexandre Oliva
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