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Re: Shouldn't liboctave et al. be linked against libgnulib.la?
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Michael Goffioul |
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Re: Shouldn't liboctave et al. be linked against libgnulib.la? |
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Sat, 3 Sep 2011 16:14:09 +0100 |
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:46 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 3-Sep-2011, Michael Goffioul wrote:
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> | As the title says, liboctave et al. uses direct calls to functions from
> gnulib.
> | But only libcruft is linked against it. Is this normal?
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> Yes, libgnu is built as a "convenience library" (the term used by
> the automake and libtool manuals) and all of its functions are supposed
> to be inserted into libcruft.
This is not how the MSVC linker works.
> There is not supposed to be a separate
> libgnu library that we would need to link with. Do you see an error?
All libgnu/librand symbols that liboctave uses are not found.
> Are the functions from libgnu not being inserted into the libcruft
> library?
The symbols used by libcruft are inserted, the rest is discarded.
Michael.