Thanks for the follow up, this gave me a much clearer idea of the
underlying issue that you're trying to solve. I really do appreciate you
taking the time to help improve `libtool'.
You're absolutely right that `libtool' completely bungles the use of
`--whole-archive' and `--no-whole-archive'
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021, Alex Ameen wrote:
Thanks for the follow up, this gave me a much clearer idea of the underlying
issue that you're trying to solve. I really do appreciate you taking the time
to help improve `libtool'.
You're absolutely right that `libtool' completely bungles the use of
`-
Howdy Bob,
I totally agree with you. `libtool' definitely should not be creating
solutions that only work with a particular linker in mind, and at a high
level I think it should ultimately work to provide a sense of
consistency across a variety of linkers.
In this case my concern is about ea
On Sun, 21 Nov 2021, Alex Ameen wrote:
Overall I think we're on the same page. I understand that `libtool' is
ultimately intended to provide cross-platform consistency as a portability
wrapper around each platform's various compilers, linkers, and loaders. It is
certainly not my intention to
