Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-29 Thread Schleicher Ralph (LLI)
albert chin writes: Anyone available to review this patch? I'll take the action. -- Ralph ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-24 Thread Albert Chin
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:48:54AM +0200, Schleicher Ralph (LLI) wrote: Howard Chu writes: I've requested this feature and sent patches for it at least twice over the past 3 years. The first time was silently ignored, the second rejected. I submitted a patch on 2003-02-10 for the

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-23 Thread Schleicher Ralph (LLI)
Howard Chu writes: I've requested this feature and sent patches for it at least twice over the past 3 years. The first time was silently ignored, the second rejected. I submitted a patch on 2003-02-10 for the upcomming Libtool 1.5 release but it was silently ignored, too. -- Ralph

Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Sander Niemeijer
Hi, Currently libtool supports the option to globally enable/disable building of shared and/or static libraries through the --enable-... options for configure or the AC_/AM_DISABLE_... macro's. When creating a library, libtool also has an extra option '-static' that can be passed at link time

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Sander Niemeijer wrote: In our situation it is not possible to just disable building of static libraries on a global level for our package, since our package provides multiple libraries and some of them need to be provided in both static and shared

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Nick Hudson
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:02 pm, Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Sander Niemeijer wrote: In our situation it is not possible to just disable building of static libraries on a global level for our package, since our package provides multiple libraries

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Nick Hudson
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:02 pm, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Firstly, in case you were wondering why libtool builds static libraries even for loadable modules, libtool via. ltdl supports loading modules on

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread gary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:02 pm, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Firstly, in case you were wondering why libtool builds static libraries even for loadable modules, libtool via. ltdl supports loading modules on systems without dynamic loading capabilities using the

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 11:32 PM, Nick Hudson wrote: OK, a better question is does anyone run an operating system that needs this feature still? I don't know the answer to this particular question, so I'll answer a different one :) This feature, if used more widely, would have been great

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-07-22T22:02+0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote: ) On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Sander Niemeijer wrote: ) A few other libraries, however, are plug-ins (modules created with the ) '-module' flag) that only need to be delivered as shared libraries. ) Firstly, in case you were wondering

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Sander Niemeijer
Hi, Does anybody know whether such a -no-static option for the libtool link mode is feasable? Can this be implemented by just adding a -no-static option to libtool that sets the internal libtool variable 'build_old_libs' to 'no' or would such a feature require some more effort? Adding this

RE: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Howard Chu
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter O'Gorman Adding this feature would not require significant effort, just add the new flag, set the var to no ought to work as you suggest. The question is rather would it be accepted. If you spent