* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:00:50PM CEST: > > Is there a public record of these? TODO file? Search string for the > list archives? next mail in this thread? ;-)
The following is not very well ordered, not very well cross-referenced, has nonempty overlap with the in-tree TODO file (sorry), is not complete (complain!), and some items served mainly as reminders for me so far. I might add some URLs and replace the MsgIDs if you put this in an editable format. Most applies to branch-2-0/HEAD or all branches. branch-1-5 only issues are denoted as such. STOP! Yes, you, right there! Before you comment on specific items below or add new ones: Please adjust the Subject: accordingly, and keep specific issues in their subthreads! Not another monster thread where information is not to be found again! (Alternatively: Gary, how about a publicly editable version of this?) Cheers, Ralf regressions =========== - use AH_HEADER (when Autoconf has it) so we are compatible to both 2.59 and CVS, and do not use private and wrong macros which break on ltdl-using client packages. pending. - fix `make install' and ltdl files timestamps. pending. - Fix LTDL_CONVENIENCE and STATIC/SHARED stuff! (mails by Akim, Albert) - Does the client need argz.m4? Only if libtoolize --ltdl? - win32-dll issue: is this the correct patch? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2005-03/msg00158.html - fix func_show_eval (or something along the way) shows not what is correctly executed (see $NM -BCpg on AIX). minor bug, description pending. - double elements in configure --help (I may removed (the wrong?) one in a patch against configure.ac) - we define LT_OBJDIR unconditionally for client sources, but don't need to (only for ltdl). - Peter Ekberg: m4_require(_LT_TAG_COMPILER) in LT_PATH_NM. minor bug, fix pending. non-system dependent ==================== - Use a better bug tracking system than this stupid list + mail folder. - LTDL_INIT/LT_WITH_LTDL: document, allow optional AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS. - fix order of macros for non-C++ users of HIDDEN_DEPLIBS: _LT_SYS_HIDDEN_LIBDEPS is at broken position in _LT_LANG_FC_CONFIG and F77 should be after _LT_LINKER_SHLIBS because output_verbose_link.. - allow --prefer-duplicate-deps after $CC - fix Keith Packard's "different SONAME" patch; test, apply - Derek Price: allow spaces in paths. find a way to get this without breaking compatibility! - deplink DESTDIR install failure. related: destdir rpath [EMAIL PROTECTED] - relink outside build tree (below DESTDIR/prefix?) - relink even less often when possible - check whether the temp rpath fix leaves cwd (`.') in LD_LIBRARY_PATH - do not leave build-tree references in installed .la files if not all libs are libtool-created (GCC!) (technically a limitation) - fix java m4 section, seriously broken - write test for $ in filenames, allow $ in object names - implement --quiet --quiet (no output) - s/EOF/_LTEOF/ in our macros (ltdl.m4). pending. - fix LN_S use. pending. - fix use of `#' in Makefiles system-dependent ================ - Fix the Solaris CC -no-undefined issue _right_. - C++ with templates need work (basic support in HEAD only) for: Solaris (-xar?), IRIX (see post from Albert), others - Ralf Menzel: branch-2-0 rebootstrap? (Solaris issue? Maybe already fixed?) - Detect & shortcut RANLIB if possible, use `ar -S' with piecewise archive linking, if it works (see message by Alexandre Oliva) - Fix static libltdl using dlopen on some BSD versions (reported by Guilhem Lavaux) - Fix AIX -dlopen "self" - make link-order SKIP or work on AIX. - AIX .funcname() problem. Need a testcase. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (maybe fixed in branch-2-0?) - backport AIX fixes to branch-1-5. - hide AIX chmod warning. pending. - Dan Stromberg: improve AIX support. - Work around some weird issues with non-GNU `make' triggering autotools reruns (seen on cygwin and mingw). - mingw mdemo failures pending: Peter Ekberg's patches [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - fix lt_error_strings on mingw more general: kill all non-function interfaces! (also those in symbols-list-object!) - cygwin -export-dynamic + -export-symbols failure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - fix stresstest failures on cygwin/mingw - have cwrapper fail if exec fails (look at gettext diff against libtool, has more changes.) - test, apply MSVC support discuss naming scheme lib$name vs $name see also e.g. https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3303527 - forward port Interix patch, test, apply - Tru64: work around shell bugs when executing `libtool' (branch-2-0/HEAD) - Fix F77/FC support for ifort/ifc -static - Fix finding icc/icpc rules when -no-gcc is not given - Fix some weird compile/link behavior (reported by Jeremie Le Hen) - Kill pass_all on many systems! But also improve library search algo to be more like local compiler - PR/17311: Wrong libgcc_s.so.1 is used by lt-gij [EMAIL PROTECTED] documentation changes ===================== - work out LT_SCOPE replacement that works on win32, document, use (see posts by Howard, Peter) - hide details more/explain abstractions better: .libs -> $objdir compile -> --mode=compile (link, install, ...) - explain convenience archives better (Tom Fogal works on this) - explain better how to integrate into your project (Ross Boylan sent some ideas about this) - explain versioning scheme better wishlist ======== - put all kinds of relocations in stresstest. Look at dsohowto and Peter Ekberg's example about dumpbin output. - stress-test libltdl. Use every single exported interface, multiple time from multiple libraries, multithreaded. - build 2 convenience archives: non-PIC + PIC - allow per-deplib -Bstatic/-Bdynamic (whatever they're called) switches - Resolve the "indirect deplibs" aka "link deplibs in shared libs on linux" issue, see RFCs. Document the result. - Fix Libtool on multilib systems! - do not hardcode ltdl system paths - allow truly relocatable libraries and programs. How? - fix all cross-compiling issues (use sysroot, $ORIGIN, whatever helps) - implement circular dependencies? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2005-08/msg00078.html fix for .la files allow storing of the deps in .la files? - look into lookup rules for deplibs: sub/liba.la, -Lsub -la, /sub/.libs/liba.a, should be treated identically when specified but are not in all cases - fix races in make install for LTLIBRARIES or: document `make install' race conditions and current ordering requirements from user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sent idea for fix to automake list) - ltdl memleak (Jeff!) +PATCH (but not thoroughly tested) need to write complex test cases first - ltdl void* -> function* separation more work, will need to break API+ABI - speed up libtool linking: think about using xargs in rejected set of patches. - shortcut mode=compile in Automake (work in sloow progress) - eliminate quoting and eval for compile mode? problems: opt_suppress (trivial!) - allow symbol versioning _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
