From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Wed Jan 13 1999 - 11:19:20 EST
On Jan 13, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> Currently, yes, but not as soon as we re-introduce native library
>> extensions in Kaffe. Or should this be completely moved into
>> libltdl. That would be even better, don't you agree?
> I am somewhat amazed by the ease with which you remove existing
> functionality from kaffe for the sake of introducing libtool,
> which is obviously not as mature a tool as we would like.
That was an oversight. I just didn't notice, when I was porting Kaffe
to libltdl, that, although libltdl supports dlopening non-libtool
libraries, Kaffe wouldn't automagically do that :-(
It should be easy to reintroduce, as soon as I remember which file
contained the list of per-platform library extensions. Unless we'd
want libltdl to do that, which would be quite easy, and would
contribute to platform independence of Kaffe.
> I bet hardly anybody has ever even heard of .la files. You cannot expect
> to invent things and have people immediately accept them.
It was not me who invented, and I'm not trying to force anybody to
accept it; it was an oversight. Please don't take stupidity as
malice.
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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