On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Albert Chin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:44:52AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > Does this help? > > > AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS([]) > > > > That's only in CVS (actually, I checked and it is not in 1.5, so it must be > > in CVS). > > I can send you a patch against 1.5 if you want. > > > I don't see it that bad that C is not a proper tag, actually. > > > > It would also be good if enable_shared and enable_static became proper tag > > variables instead of globals. BTW, the October patch for -shared > > and -static handling (which I just noted) is a complete duplicate of the > > special tags disable-shared and disable-static. It should be reverted IMO, > > it is just featurism. When *I* proposed such a change (with no attached > > patch, granted :-) I was told to use the multi-language branch instead. > > Why make enable_shared and enable_static specific to a tag? Wouldn't > it be odd that you create shared libs for "C" programs and static for > "C++"? And, the --enable-shared and --enable-static options would have > to multiply (--enable-c-shared, --enable-cxx-shared, etc).
Actually, it would not be odd at all to want to build as shared for C, but static for C++. This is because many C++ compiler installs do not provide shared C++ libraries, or exceptions don't work correctly for C++ shared libraries. At the moment, the shared/static flag seems to be global so if C supports shared libraries, then C++ also attempts to build shared libraries. This has certainly caused some problems for Cygwin/MinGW builds. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
