Hi Kevin,
Sorry that I haven't been moving on this stuff. I've been busy with
the work that feeds me. :-)
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:26:28PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> About a month ago we discussed better C++ support and support for dropping
> static libraries not compiled with PIC code when creating shared
> libraries.
>
> I was wondering what the status of:
>
> 1) Adding support for C++ on all (or most) platforms where g++ is used
> as the C++ compiler.
The problem with the C++ support in the multi-language branch in the
case of g++ is that each platform has its own g++ configuration. I
don't recall why I set things up that way, but I may have had a
reason. Anyway, assuming that there is no good reason to have
platform specific g++ configurations, then the solution would be to
take the Linux g++ configuration, for example, and move to a point
before all the platform-specific configurations occur, and perhaps
setup a "with_gxx" (as opposed to with_gcc) flag, similar to what is
done with the C compiler configurations. These changes would have to
be done in the ltcf-cxx.sh shell script fragment.
Does this reasonable?
> 2) Adding support to avoid linking in static libraries when creating a
> shared library if 1) It is not compiled with PIC code or 2) the user
> requests it.
>From what I recall, this was a generic libtool issue, i.e. one that
isn't specific to the C++ support. Is this correct? I'm not sure
where to start on this one since it's been a while since I looked deep
into libtool's internals. Hopefully somebody can chime in here.
> Implementing these two features would REALLY help me out with my Pspell
> project (http://psepll.sourceforge.net). I am willing to do what ever I
> can to help out. I will even be willing to write some code provided
> someone can point me in the right direction.
Donations are always welcome. :-)
-Ossama
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Distributed Object Computing Laboratory, Univ. of California at Irvine
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