--- Ralf Habacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original
Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert
> > Collins
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:47 AM
> > To: Danny Smith; cygwin-apps; mingw-dvlpr
> > Subject: Re: ld ---export--all --exclude-libs,?
> >
> >
> > IIRC the reason the auto-export feature didn't automatically prevent
> > forwarded exports was we didn't know how. I had a quick look at doing
> > that when I tweaked Paul's work to also exlude the cygwin common
> > symbols.
> >
> > If you've found how to detect forward exports coming from other
> > libraries, then _please_ make excluding those the default. In fact IMO
> > such symbols should require explicit source code decoration -say via
> the
> > .def file- to create as AFAIK there is no ELF equivalent to a forwarded
> > symbol.
> >
> Currently I'm using a patched binutils for compiling kde which exclude
> all *.a libs inm
> conjunction with libtool.
>
> To export specific libs, I'm using the "no whole archive" options of
> libtool, which unpacks
> the archive and adds each objfile.
> Additional this is nessessary if you are using static libs in more than
> one dll.
>
> Index: pe-dll.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/ld/pe-dll.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.37
> diff -u -b -B -p -r1.37 pe-dll.c
> --- pe-dll.c 2001/10/19 14:25:51 1.37
> +++ pe-dll.c 2001/11/21 09:35:22
> @@ -231,6 +237,8 @@ static autofilter_entry_type autofilter_
> { "libgcc.", 7 },
> { "libstdc++.", 10 },
> { "libmingw32.", 11 },
> +// RH: workaround to allow using static libs in multiple dlls
> + { ".a", 2 },
> { NULL, 0 }
> };
>
> Ralf
>
>
Yes, something like that is my preference: exclude all libs
char * libname;
if (abfd && abfd->my_archive
&& libname = lbasename (abfd->my_archive->filename))
/* Check if explicitly listed as an included lib. If not */
return 0;
Danny
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