> > The problem is that a libtool .so file, AFAIK, is not the same as a > > regular .so file. > > It is the same as a .so file: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] apr-util]$ file .libs/libaprutil.so.0.0.0 > .libs/libaprutil.so.0.0.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version > 1, not stripped > [EMAIL PROTECTED] apr-util]$ > > > It is a hack so that the same thing works on all > > platforms. > > They do a bunch of stuff to get shared libs working wherever possible. On > platforms that don't support them at all, then some magic occurs. Don't ask > me what because I haven't seen that (because those platforms are relatively > rare nowadays). The libtool manual probably describes this well. > > > I do not believe that libtool .so files work when the program > > using them is not using libtool, so this would limit apr-utils usefulness > > to just programs using libtool. I would much prefer to not have that > > limitation. > > Nope. The .so files are standard .so files. Anybody can use and link against > them, just like every other .so file.
Okay, my comments came from reading the libtool manual, but if you have real-world experience with this, lets just use libtool. Ryan _______________________________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 406 29th St. San Francisco, CA 94131 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
