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Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1


On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:02:17PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> ARGH.  This defeats the whole purpose of the policy change -- and it
>>> is a policy change driven by the libtool development.
>
>I've been hunting for the relevant threads on the libtool list - can't find
>them. Can anyone offer URLs or search terms that would help?
>
>Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> May be, but like Max has stated, I don't like to be forced to make
>> every static lib as shared lib. This would break the whole kde build
>> system, because often convenience librarys are build and assembled
>> together into a dll. May be, that's the reason, why on linux and
>> other systems "pass_all" is used, because it overrides this police.
>
>I think that in some cases, libtool tries to do too much. I've run into a
>number of cases which would have just worked if libtool had passed the
>arguments to gcc without modification, but it insists on filtering stuff in
>complex ways. For example, gcc -print-search-dirs doesn't admit to searching
>/usr/lib/w32api, so any attempt to link with a w32api library when
>cross-compiling with -mno-cygwin (which means the Cygwin-specific hack in
>libtool.m4 doesn't get activated) fails. Now, admittedly, gcc is probably
>wrong in not showing all its search dirs correctly, but sometimes I wish
>libtool trusted the compiler more.

gcc doesn't search /usr/lib/w32api.  ld does.  Since it's impossible for
ld to *not* search /usr/lib/w32api, I don't know why this is an issue
unless you've got a mismatch between gcc and ld.

cgf

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