FYI: paste Peter's TODO thread summary [libtool--devo--1.0--patch-337]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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  M  ChangeLog
  M  TODO
  
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  Index: Changelog
  from  Gary V. Vaughan  <address@hidden>
  
        * TODO: Paste Peter's summary of the TODO thread starting at
        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-11/msg00130.html.
  
  --- orig/TODO
  +++ mod/TODO
  @@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
   1.1. libtool
   ------------
   
  -* Fix the bug exposed by am-subdir.at tests.
  -
   * Rather than looking up the linker's hardcode characteristics in a
     table of shell code, use objdump or equivalent to probe a test program
     at configure time.
  @@ -18,6 +16,8 @@
   * Hook the various language dependencies into the autoconf _AC_LANG
     framework.
   
  +* Work out what to do when the dynamic linker loads needed dependencies.
  +
   * We could have an option to hardcode paths into libraries, as well as
     binaries: `... -Wl,-soname -Wl,/tmp/libtest.so.0 ...'.  This is not
     possible on all platforms, and is in part obviated by the ability of
  @@ -51,6 +51,12 @@
   1.2. libtldl
   ------------
   
  +* Get rid of the shared libddloader.
  +
  +* Change libltdl interface: add separate functions for function
  +  pointers.  This will allow porting to systems where function pointers
  +  are incompatible with data pointer C-wise.
  +
   * Fix the following bugs in libltdl:
    - error reporting of tryall_dlopen():
      if the file actually doesn't exist (stat() fails or it wasn't dlpreopened)
  @@ -86,9 +92,19 @@
   * Write a test case for linkage with gnu ld scripts (per 2004-08-25 patch
     from Paolo Bonzini).
   
  +* Test everything:
  +    - cross compile
  +    - dirs with ~
  +
   2.3. libtool
   ------------
   
  +* Fix cross-compiling.
  +
  +* Fix threads.
  +
  +* Support multilibbing.
  +
   * If not cross-compiling, have the static flag test run the resulting
     binary to make sure everything works.
   
  @@ -119,19 +135,49 @@
     for example.  In the future, we might even have an option to encode
     the sonames of all dependencies of a library into its soname.
   
  +* Look again at a binary C libtool, or byte-compiled libtool to improve
  +  speed.
  +
  +* Generate some "platform specific" shell functions with config.status,
  +  for example, there is no need to have the C source code for the
  +  wrapper script on non-windows platforms, this will make the generated
  +  libtool script smaller and easier to follow, maybe a little faster
  +  too?
  +
   2.4. libtool autoconf macros
   ----------------------------
   
  -* The definitions for AC_LTDL_SHLIBEXT, AC_LTDL_SHLIBPATH and
  -  AC_LTDL_SYSSEARCHPATH  should not rely on the _LT_AC_LTCONFIG_HACK
  +* Sort out the macro mess in libtool.m4.  We've started this already
  +  by refactoring chunks into separate files, but I never did completely
  +  untangle the mess of macros imported from ltconfig.
  +
  +* The definitions for LT_SYS_MODULE_EXT, LT_SYS_MODULE_PATH and
  +  LT_SYS_DLSEARCH_PATH  should not rely on the _LT_SYS_DYNAMIC_LINKER
     macro.  This involves moving the code which sets the variables
     library_names_spec, shlibpath_var and sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec from
     into a separate macro, and AC_REQUIRING the newly extracted macro in the
     respective ltdl.m4 macros.
   
  -2.5. libltdl
  +2.5. libtool automake integration
  +---------------------------------
  +
  +* Unify locks between libtool and compile.
  +
  +* Fix relinking.
  +
  +2.6. libltdl
   ------------
   
  +* Finish the rewrite of the core libltdl.  The loaders are fine, and
  +  the outlying code is now good.  Ralf is starting to pick away at a lot
  +  of the remaining nasties already, but the code for finding .la/.so files
  +  and reading/loading them could use a lot more improvement.
  +
  +* I think we could factor out a little path management support module
  +  from existing libltdl.  This would be useful for M4 at least -- keeping
  +  track of FOO_PATH environment contents, searching for files in paths
  +  etc.
  +
   * Try to find a work-around for -[all-]static and libltdl on platforms
     that will fail to find dlopening functions in this case.  Maybe
     creating an alternate libltdl that provides only for dlpreopening, or
  @@ -139,7 +185,10 @@
     of the functions that can't be linked statically.  This could hardly
     be made completely transparent, though.
   
  -2.6. win32 support
  +* Add i18n strings to libltdl, ensuring that package developers can
  +  ignore any i18n when they libtoolize.
  +
  +2.7. win32 support
   ------------------
   
   * Arrange that EXEEXT suffixes are stripped from wrapper script names
  @@ -173,6 +222,16 @@
     additional per user module data in the lt_dlmodule structure -- perhaps
     in the form of an associative array keyed by user name?
   
  +* Figure out how to make pkg-config aware of the information libtool
  +  knows about libraries and their dependencies, and send a patch.
  +
  +* Support dlmopen dladdr1 and dlinfo in libltdl [I totally disagree with
  +  this one Ralf, libltdl is a portability library, none of these functions
  +  enhance portability in any way -- Peter]
  +
  +* Generate a libtool.m4 from a bunch of individual files, one per
  +  platform, to make the job of a "platform maintainer" easier and make
  +  it easier to add new platforms.
   
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