Re: Full success (was RE: partial Success)

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 13 1999 - 15:44:25 EST


 Is Gordon Matzigkeit still involved in libtool?

        - Godmar

>
> On Jan 13, 1999, "Parmelan, Edouard" <EP510777@exchange.FRANCE.NCR.com> wrote:
>
> > [ as you know if libtool fails to load the dynamic object
> > it use the static one ]
>
> Yep. I'm willing to move to the safe side and build only a static
> module if there are any dynamic dependencies that can't be satisfied
> for a module. This will at least get us working while we port
> inter-library dependencies to other platforms.
>
> > For libtool, how can I test that it's legal for all cases ?
>
> Hard to tell. I still don't fully understand all the issues
> involved. Gordon Metzigkeit used to have a web page explaining what
> was the hard point about inter-library dependencies, and how different
> systems were from one another WRT to this.
>
> One reasonable approach is to give a try on pass_all and, if something
> ever breaks, find out why and move to a more conservative mechanism.
> But we shouldn't make it the default for all systems, otherwise we
> risk breaking everything at once. Better have someone listed as the
> ChangeLog responsible for each particular change, so that we can
> contact that person and try to get him helping us finding a way to
> improve ILD on each platform.
>
> --
> 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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