Re: handle the -framework flag

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Peter!

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2003-08/msg00018.html

2003-09-10  Peter O'Gorman  <address@hidden>

        * mdemo2/configure.ac: Use AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN.
        * mdemo2/main.c: Use LTDL_SET_PRELOADED_SYMBOLS().
        * mdemo2/Makefile.am: Set INCLUDES properly and add -dlopen force
        to make sure the symbols file is included in the link line.

Got it.  Applied to HEAD and branch-1-5.

> Any reason it 
> [[http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2003-09/msg00004.html]]
> can't be in the 1.5 branch too? (please)

branch-1-5 is feature frozen.  Bugs can be fixed, but 1-5 must become more 
stable while features are added to HEAD for a future 1.6 release.  Sorry.
I'll probably release 1.6 shortly after automake 1.8 anyhow, and have no 
particular plans to roll 1.5.1 anytime soon :-)

Actually, I almost rejected that patch altogether since it breaks the platform 
neutrality of the libtool interface! But I can't think of a better way to do 
it, and it is definitely better than nothing.  I do wonder why one might want 
to make one's project darwin specific by using the -framework option to 
libtool, when one can instead write darwin specific Makefile.am rules and 
ignore libtool entirely -- makes later porting easier I guess...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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