Re: [patch #9687] bugfix: make -export-dynamic imply --whole-archive

2021-11-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021, Alex Ameen wrote: Thanks for the follow up, this gave me a much clearer idea of the underlying issue that you're trying to solve. I really do appreciate you taking the time to help improve `libtool'. You're absolutely right that `libtool' completely bungles the use of

Re: [patch #9687] bugfix: make -export-dynamic imply --whole-archive

2021-11-21 Thread Alex Ameen
Howdy Bob, I totally agree with you. `libtool' definitely should not be creating solutions that only work with a particular linker in mind, and at a high level I think it should ultimately work to provide a sense of consistency across a variety of linkers. In this case my concern is about

Re: [patch #9687] bugfix: make -export-dynamic imply --whole-archive

2021-11-21 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 21 Nov 2021, Alex Ameen wrote: Overall I think we're on the same page. I understand that `libtool' is ultimately intended to provide cross-platform consistency as a portability wrapper around each platform's various compilers, linkers, and loaders. It is certainly not my intention to

[patch #9996] Patch libtool for macOS 11.0 (aka darwin20)

2021-11-21 Thread Alex Ameen
Update of patch #9996 (project libtool): Status:None => Done Assigned to:None => growpotkin Open/Closed:Open => Closed

[patch #10113] remove hard coded paths to /usr/bin/file

2021-11-21 Thread Alex Ameen
Update of patch #10113 (project libtool): Status:None => Done Assigned to:None => growpotkin Open/Closed:Open => Closed