On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Max Horn wrote: > > > The reason is, > >> > >> [drawin1.[0-2]]] is a bit behind, since Darwin is at 1.4.1 as of October > >> 1st. Although < 1.4.0 is a major change in some instances, although not > >> so much with libtool. > > There is a good reason for this check - it *deliberatly* checks for > darwin 1.0 - 1.2, because those are different in many aspects from > 1.3/1.4. Those are handled in other places, though.
I think a portion of the problem, is that the full patches don't live at home yet, which had me patching before I found all the other patches. I noticed only 1.0..1.2 in the changelog, which didn't exist in other places. The PPC linux kernel is basically the same. I have now seen the light :-) > > > > > > >> I asked the Darwin group why they are just local to the filesystem. > > > >Okay. Keep us posted. > > > >There is one patch against libtool for the benefit of Darwin, that I > >have had to rejected because it causes regressions for most other > >platforms. You should be able to find the thread in the list archives. > > That patch is actually bad even on darwin. As Christoph Pfisterer and > I posted here various time (but sadly, there never was a reply), > there seems to be a bit more fundamental libtool issue regarding > conveniance libs. The -all_load flag just doesn't do it, and libtool > has this habit of listing convenience libs twice on the command line > used to invoke the linker, causing loads of "multiple definitions" > errors > > Ok, cdemo tests fail. What are the requirements from admin for modification to cdemo if needed? Sorry I have to ask, sometimes people have various reasons for not allowing specific modifications. thanks, scott > > > > >Also there is a long standing problem with the way zsh echo handles > >backslashes that I haven't had the time to look into. Fixing this > >would make life for libtool on darwin a whole lot easier... > > Certainly! > > > Max > _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool