As always , forgetting reply-to-all...
Pier
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> From: Pier Fumagalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 23:23:43 +0100
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Jim volunteers - ASF libtool liaison
>
> "Jim Jagielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Good ASF members and developers... as those of you on the APR and HTTPD
>> lists are aware, there is a growing need for some of the patches and
>> improvements that we've run into regarding (mostly) libtool, to be
>> forwarded back to the libtool team. To make it easier to coordinate
>> this, I'm volunteering to be the liaison between the ASF and the
>> libtool team (this can grow to the Auto* team as well, if the
>> need arises).
>>
>> At present, it appears that libtool 1.4.2 is not compatible with
>> at least 2 platforms that Apache 2.0 runs on: Darwin (OS X) and AIX.
>> If others on other projects have run into similar problems, please
>> send me your patches, and I'll coordinate them with the libtool
>> team. I'm sure the feedback will be appreciated!
>
> Jim...
> the first thing little patch (it's really stupid, but it makes it work
> on OS/X), is already available since quite some time on my home page at
> http://www.apache.org/~pier/macosx/Patches/libtool-1.4.2.patch.gz
>
> I don't know whether it affects other stuff or not, but so far, it never
> failed working on Darwin with anything I needed to compile, and for sure it
> works with out stuff (eat our own dog food and screw the rest! :) :)
>
> The real problem with GNU libtool on Darwin, though, is versioning... OS/X
> support versioning for libraries (compatibility and current versions),
> inside the binary itself (which is _so_good_), and libtool doesn't really
> understands that... It just does its own way and so I usually end up having
> to relink every dylib... DOH! :)
>
> Pier
>
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