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RE: another darwin patch
From: |
Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
RE: another darwin patch |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:58:25 -0600 (CST) |
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Howard Chu wrote:
> If the idea is for libtool to be a general purpose tool, then it should allow
> everything that the underlying platform allows. You can try do advise against
> doing something stupid, but don't get in the way of developers who know what
> they want it to do.
The idea is for libtool to enable the *portable* creation of shared
libraries on as many platforms as possible. If a feature can not be
supported in a portable fashion, then it is not supported at all.
Linking against static libraries while creating shared libraries is
not portable.
Bob
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