Re: Separate CPPFLAGS for static and shared libs

[Vikram Ambrose]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Vikram Ambrose wrote on Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:59:38PM CEST:
>   
> > Thanks all. However modifying the code is not a possibility. I do  
> > understand that the code is not designed properly. I am looking for a  
> > way to configure the build tools to build the code properly instead of  
> > configuring the code to get the build tools to build it properly.
> >     
>
> If you are using GCC:
>
> cat > my-fixup-header.h <<\EOF
> /* This file maps the PIC define given by libtool
>    to STATIC/SHARED needed by my legacy code */
> #ifdef PIC
> # define SHARED
> #else
> # define STATIC
> #endif
> EOF
> ./configure CPPFLAGS="-include `pwd`/my-fixup-header.h"
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>   
Fantastic, thank you very much. I did not know of this feature.

Hopefully this maybe also thought of as an implicit feature request for 
the next release. libtool to read lib_la_* and additionally lib_a_* flags.

thank you Ralf and the rest of the libtool mailing list.

Vikram

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