Re: darwin patches for HEAD

[Peter O'Gorman]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

>>    Drop support for xlc, it is probably broken.
> 
> Do you know it is broken, or just guess?  Or does this patch just
> intentionally break it.  This would be a regression over branch-1-5.  
> (I'm not saying that I have a problem with the removal, your call.)

I think it is broken, but do not know, nor care. I realize that it is a
"regression" over 1.5, but I have never gotten any feedback on xlc
support, and do not believe that anyone cares.


> 
>>    * tests/template.at [darwin]: Skip this test, I can not find a way
>>    to make it work on darwin9 with Xcode-3.0.
>>    * NEWS: Note the dropping of xlc support.

>> +  _LT_DECL([], [NMEDIT], [1],
>> +    [])
> 
> Can you provide a short description of these tools in the _LT_DECL?
> By looking at the names alone, I wouldn't even think they are connected
> with darwin at all, nor really know what they do.

Ok

> I haven't tried any LT_MULTI_MODULE runs yet (should I try combining
> that with MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET also?).

No. sigh. I will have to add a test that the output has dwarf debugging
symbols before putting dsymutil into the archive_cmds. Thanks for
catching this.

Peter
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