Re: use of libtool

2000-12-04 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:42:06PM +0100, Branko Cibej wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: >... > > Sure, we'd get it to work on Linux and *BSD. Possily a Solaris and AIX box. > > But the rest? Eek. > > You're an optimist. AIX already gets a few eeks from me. Non-ELF > platforms are mostly goblins. :-) O

Re: use of libtool

2000-12-04 Thread Branko Čibej
Greg Stein wrote: I think we're going to have to / want to use libtool there, too. libtool already does it correctly for each platform, and I would *not* be confident in the slightest of us getting it right. It wouldn't be "a simple shell script"... I know that much. +1 on using libtool. I have the

Re: use of libtool

2000-12-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 02:59:03PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >... > > Nope. The .so files are standard .so files. Anybody can use and link against > > them, just like every other .so file. > > Okay, my comments came from reading the libtool manual, Hey... nobody can dis you for reading the

Re: use of libtool

2000-12-02 Thread rbb
> > The problem is that a libtool .so file, AFAIK, is not the same as a > > regular .so file. > > It is the same as a .so file: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] apr-util]$ file .libs/libaprutil.so.0.0.0 > .libs/libaprutil.so.0.0.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version > 1, not stripped > [EM

Re: use of libtool

2000-12-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 02:09:29PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >... > > Well, unlike Apache, we need to be able to create a shared library for > > consumption by other programs. (Apache only needs dynamic-load modules) To > > build a shared library, libtool is the best available option. > > >

Re: use of libtool (was: Re: cvs commit: apr-util/test .cvsignore Makefile.in)

2000-12-02 Thread rbb
> > > Note that it uses autoconf and libtool. It isn't complicated enough for > > > automake, so I didn't bother. The build stuff is also greatly simplified > > > over those in APR and Apache. A single build/rules.mk and teeny makefiles > > > throughout. > > > > I would really prefer to not use li