In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write:
> Collect2 has some code to parse arguments which is less than perfect,
> especially when one takes libtool into account.
>
> Specifically, gcc specs documentation explicitly says that any file that do
> es
> not have default rules will be transparently passed to the linker.
>
> On the other hand, collect2's parser does only recognize .o files as proper
> object files.
>
> What this means is that libtool CAN'T support .lo on any platform that reli
> es
> on collect2 to do its job.
>
> This is especially important for C++, where g++ -shared might be the only
> sane way to ensure constructors are going to be called.
>
> So, I'm wondering about how to fix that. A simple fix would be tell collect
> 2
> that .lo are also object files. Here it is:
>
> Mon Jul 10 17:10:09 MET DST 2000 Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * collect2.c (main): Recognize .lo as object files.
Installed based on Jason's approval.
jeff
