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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libtool-devel-1.5.6-3
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:21:48 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libtool-devel-1.5.6-3
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <200407081559.i68Fxqi17794@esds.vss.fsi.com>
Charles wrote:
> The libtool-devel package contains the 1.5.6 version of libtool, a
> cross-platform tool for building libraries (shared and otherwise). It
> enables relatively trouble-free builds of DLLs on cygwin and mingw.
> Changes from 1.5-3:
> o routine update to latest release version
> o Includes Gerrit's "expat" fix -- but only the first part of the patch:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01559.html
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01283.html
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01247.html
Hurray;) Many thanks.
OTOH I still need to use the second part of the patch if I don't want to
patch several Makefile.am's all the time...
> o DESIGN DECISION: (this is a a change from pre-20021111 behavior)
> libtool will refuse to create a shared library if any of its
> dependencies are available only as static archives. DLLs may
> only depend on other DLLs (*)
>
>
> (*) This is a good idea. But, we need workarounds for the standard
> runtime libs like libgcc.a, libstdc++.a, etc. These workarounds are
> implemented in this libtool release.
This is great, now I don't need to use `pass_all' all the time when
building C++ shared libraries (e.g. libextractor).
BTW, it seems that not all announcements are going through to the cygwin
list, I'm missing gettext and autoconf announcements and I'm also missing
the gtk2-x11 announcement, or is just me who is not receiving all the
mail from the list?
Gerrit
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