On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:16:52PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2000, Jason Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > This is what I'll do then. Maybe this could be a future enhancement to
> > libtool?
>
> Libtool can't do that in general, since it cannot assume an archive
> contains PIC code. However, this gives me an idea: we could have some
> mechanism to create an .la file for existing libraries. You'd run
> libtool for linking just as usual, but with a flag telling it to not
> perform any actual linking, just the creation of the .la files. Then,
> it would be trivial to create a convenience library out of an existing
> .a file, then use it to create a shared library. But I repeat: this
> would only work portably if the archive contained PIC code.
That should be added to the TODO for 1.5 I think. IIRC, there have
been a few reports of this very same problem with linking one of the
perl libraries into libtool libraries. It would be a big win to fix
this.
Cheers,
Gary.
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