-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 6/4/2006 5:38 PM: > > I've added a libdl.a to the latest snapshot, however any project which > relies on the existence of this library without checking to see if it > exists is broken as far as portability is concerned.
By doing so, you broke CVS libtool (which will someday become libtool 2.0). Now that libtool can find -ldl, but there is no dynamic library behind it, libtool is now spitting out the following warning on every attempt to create a dll that depends on libltdl: *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -ldl. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have *** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting *** with libdl and none of the candidates passed a file format test *** using a file magic. Last file checked: /lib/libdl.a *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be *** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library *** or is declared to -dlopen it. *** Since this library must not contain undefined symbols, *** because either the platform does not support them or *** it was explicitly requested with -no-undefined, *** libtool will only create a static version of it. I don't know if the fix is providing a dynamic placeholder for libdl in cygwin, or teaching libtool that -ldl should not be used by libltdl on cygwin, although the latter sounds more appealing. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEuOvx84KuGfSFAYARAkrgAKCX4hM9va+ydcWUuHwoj0qHCVqNiACffrmi e1BPAty4M0FAyHetrHrlVeU= =B7Zx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/