Nick Hudson writes: > On Tuesday 15 July 2003 4:00 pm, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > [...] > > The imake rule in question will not be removed because there is nothing > > to preclude its use by external packages such as those found in X.Org's > > contrib/. > > Ok. Thanks for explaining. > > Am I on a road to nowhere in attempting to change the build infrastructure to > accomplish my goal? Please see > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-x11/2003/06/02/0001.html >
Currently we are building those static libraries that are to be included in shared libs position independent. Maybe it should be explained why this creates problems with libtool. If I recall correctly there has been a discussion about building position independent shared libs using the _pic.a naming sceme you propose however it has been rejected then. I don't recall the exact reason any more, though. At least you have to make sure that backward compatibility issues are avoided (for example a build process expectes a libfoo.a however the PIC static lib is libfoo_pic.a). Have you discussed this issue with those who need to link these libs into their shared libraries? Egbert. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
