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Re: Poartble use of shared libraries when linking executables
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Albert Chin |
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Re: Poartble use of shared libraries when linking executables |
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Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:14:15 -0600 |
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:02:43PM +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> I found a discussion about portable use of shared libraries on this
> list:
>
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2002-05/msg00124.html
Ick.
> Despite the apparent consensus that AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS should be added,
> I cannot find it in 2.57. Has the macro undergone significant
> changes, or is it simply not in yet?
>
> I'm interested because I'd like to use it in Wget, which currently
> uses libtool for linking. While this solution works, it is quite
> heavyweight, especially with libtool 1.5, which contains an incredible
> number of unnecessary checks (e.g. for every FORTRAN compiler under
> the sun). Also, libtool sometimes breaks on architectures it was not
> well tested on, which in turn causes Wget to not build. Since Wget
> doesn't even *use* the functionality of libtool, except for setting up
> rpath, it would be nice to get rid of the dependency.
A patch has already made it into libtool 1.5.x to fix the above
problem. I think the libtool developers are working towards a 1.6
release in sync with automake 1.8 and possibly autoconf 2.59.
The solution is libtool. I'm sure the libtool list would be interested
in any problems you find.
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albert chin (address@hidden)