Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-90

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Peter!

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>> The mdemo-inst.test, mdemo-dryrun.test, & mdemo-inst.test tests, are
>> failing now under FreeBSD 5.0, but all tests were passing several days
>> ago.
> 
> I had a look, but a decent solution escapes me. Gary's "obvious bug fix"
> here has the (presumably intended) effeect of adding libdlloader.la to
> libltdl.la and libltdlc.la's dependency_libs.

No, that shouldn't happen.   From libltdl/Makefile.am:

libltdlc_la_LIBADD      =  $(libdlloader_la_OBJECTS) $(libdlloader_la_LIBADD)

So, libltdlc.a contains copies of the libdlloader objects, plus any LTLIBOBJS
for the host (e.g. the argz objects on darwin).

But you're right in that libltdlc.la says:

dependency_libs='/Users/gary/devel/savannah/libtool--devo--1.0/+build/libltdl/libdlloader.la
-ldl   '

:-(

> I have no idea why it was
> passing all tests before on darwin and FreeBSD, perhaps we need to add a
> test that specifically uses libdlloader functionality (whatever that is,
> haven't looked). However, now it is there and when mdemo on darwin comes
> to build with --disable-shared, it builds all static libs in mdemo, but
> libltdl is already built, it is already built with shared libs, so there
> is a libdllloader.la that has shared libraries. libtool sees them and
> uses them. Properly so, in my opinion.

Nup, libltdlc is self contained for this reason.  All tests pass on my Panther
10.3.4 box though.  I'll see if I can figure out how to prevent libdlloader
being added to libltdlc.la...

> If --disable-shared always preferred static libs regardless of their
> location (i.e. acted like the -static flag) then we'd be fine too. But
> that is not the intent of --disable-shared.

Agreed.

> Anyone got any ideas?

Give me a minute, I'll see if I can fix it.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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