> Ulrich Drepper, in his article on DLLs
>
> https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
>
> (section 2.2.6), criticizes that libtool maps its `--export-symbols'
> option to GNU linker option `-retain-symbol-file'. Instead, it
> should use `-version-script'.
>
> This seems to be a valid concern. Given that libtool already uses
> `-version-script' for the Solaris linker, I wonder what are the
> reasons to not use this code for the GNU linker also.
Oops! On my GNU/Linux box, libtool already does the right thing.
Sorry for the noise. It seems that Drepper should rather update his
article :-)
Werner
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