Re: Q: Forcing a -Wl,-rpath arg to static lib users

/2020-December/114536.html > > I am thinking that you may be trying to fix something which should already be > working with the original FSF libtool. > > Bob -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Q: library dependencies

ssfully link due to unresolved symbols. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/

Re: z/OS

there; in that case it is easier if you provide pointers and test suggested patches from us). Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf ___ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director

Re: dlopening the C runtime library

to open? None of this guesswork should be needed. Since the main program already depends on libc, you should be able to lt_dlopen(NULL) and reference the main program to find libc's symbols. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http

Re: libltdl is inefficient and a security hazard

-guessing, and on SVR4/ELF-based platforms it's not even needed. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ ___ http

Re: Why is setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH very bad?

, and to provide a tool to rewrite those paths at install time. I suppose you could write a tool using libbfd to rewrite the binaries in a more portable/less kludgy manner. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp

Re: -msg_* flags for cc on osf

an argument, so we do not let through the argument. This results in a link error for Bob. This may be a dumb question, but why can't he use -Wc to pass these flags through as desired? -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp

Re: Windows C++ support impossible?

applies to C++, C works allready in most cases ;o) Such a truism... -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp://www.openldap.org/project

Re: windows static archive, missing symbols

to know whether you will be using a static or a dynamic version, whenever compiling an app that uses the library. Very braindead, and there's no solution to that problem. The workaround is to never export variables from your libraries, only functions/accessor methods. -- -- Howard Chu Chief

Re: windows static archive, missing symbols

Bob Rossi wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 06:30:19PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote: The next question is, why is it looking for an import symbol instead of using the real symbol. The answer to that must lie in your header files; they probably declare the function to be a DLL export, which causes

Re: windows static archive, missing symbols

, and hasn't been necessary for at least 5 years. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg00236.html -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp://www.openldap.org/project

Re: MS lib program in msys

, so it would work. On Cygwin //foo is left alone, so it would not work. Please just change everything to use dashes. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp

Re: Support for VC++ toolchain (was Re: Absolute paths generated by libtool.)

PlateformSDK. Neither cccl nor wgcc *should* be setting the environment. That's what .profile is for. Or you could just edit msys.bat to call vcvars32.bat before starting up rxvt. It's not the job of the compiler-driver to set up the environment. It's the job of the *user* to do so. -- -- Howard

Re: -dlopen self and optimizing away symbols

because it seemed to misbehave. Those changes are way back in the mists of time. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp://www.openldap.org/project

Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

like a corrupted something. Sorry for the trouble. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp://www.openldap.org/project

Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

fi I was thinking that, or ((set -o posix) /dev/null 2*1); ... Will give it a shot. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp://www.openldap.org/project

Re: libltdl examples

libltdl from the main executable. servers/slapd/overlays/ppolicy.c is a loadable module that also uses libltdl to load other modules. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp

Re: 1.5.18: suppressing non-C language checks / pass flags to cc in link mode

complaining about libtool-1.5 even checking for those languages -mike This is a more relevant post: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2005-08/msg00137.html -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP

Re: -dlopen self on AIX

to older releases of AIX, where they really did export everything, and you'd get clashes for stupid things like __init and such that never should have been exported in the first place.) -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp

Re: -dlopen self on AIX

that are not usually compiled as PIC code. It would be a pretty drastic change to get that all working. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp://www.openldap.org/project

Re: Is it possible to pass different options to static/shared builds?

commandline options for static vs shared, use explicit make rules. Have one rule invoke libtool --tag=disable-static to produce only the shared files, and another with libtool --tag=disable-shared to produce only the static files. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com

SYSROOT/DESTDIR (was Re: static vs. dynamic linking)

build paths to any explicitly provided -R/-rpath options, and I usually comment that bit out of libtool in our builds. It seems like a pretty simple thing to get working, without any negative side effects. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director

Re: use of modules, static vs shared, and dependencies

file that contains an array of references to the entry points of all the static backends. Cheers, and thanks for your explanations and the pointer! Ralf -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP

Re: use of modules, static vs shared, and dependencies

): blah blah blah slapd: $(SLAPD_STATIC_STUFF) blah blah blah dummy2 $(SLAPD_DYNAMIC_STUFF): slapd blah blah blah -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Team

Re: libtool 1.5 -static and installed libraries

the documentation? Considering that 1.4 behavior and doc agreed, I can only view this as a regression since 1.5. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp

Re: how to link with installed libltdl?

Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: Howard Chu wrote: In OpenLDAP's configure.in we use ... so does libltdl never need any libraries linked to it? like -ldl on some systems or something else? all that complexity is usualy hidden in an m4 macro package, a libfoo-config script or a pkgconfig

Re: ITS#3977 libtool 1.5.18 and installed libraries

statically linking them. This patch tweaks prefer_static_libs to distinguish between the -static and -all-static cases so that the link step can actually perform as documented. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com

Re: ITS#3977 libtool 1.5.18 and installed libraries

statically linking them. This patch tweaks prefer_static_libs to distinguish between the -static and -all-static cases so that the link step can actually perform as documented. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com

Re: How to configure libtool so that it doesn't run some tests ?

faster as well (which is a real godsend on some of the ultra slow dev systems we port to). -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp://www.openldap.org/project

Re: libtool 1.5 -static and installed libraries

Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Howard, Alexandre, others, * Howard Chu wrote on Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:19:03PM CEST: We just migrated from libtool-1.4.3 to 1.5.18 in the OpenLDAP CVS HEAD, and are seeing a new linking problem. You've migrated *already*? :-) This was actually our 2nd or 3rd

Re: how to link with installed libltdl?

=-lltdl AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBLTDL,1,[define if you have libtool -ltdl]) ]) if test $ac_cv_lib_ltdl_lt_dlinit = no ; then AC_MSG_ERROR([could not locate libtool -lltdl]) fi -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun

libtool 1.5 -static and installed libraries

is, why does linking with -static cause libtool to behave like -all-static was used, why does it ignore the installed status of the libraries? -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Team

libtool AC_ARG_WITH and autoconf 2.59

for specifying external packages, instead of for specifying options, this would seem to be the correct fix. Any thoughts? -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sunhttp://highlandsun.com/hyc OpenLDAP Core Teamhttp

Re: solaris 10: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

the GNU linker. This is based on past experience learned the hard way. Agreed. The GNU linker used to be pretty good up to the SunOS 4 days, but we always use the Solaris linker on our builds now. Again, past experience... -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland

Re: MSYS+MSVC for libtool branch-2-0

. Likewise for Cygwin.) -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

Re: FYI: TODO update

Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Howard, * Howard Chu wrote on Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 06:40:19PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 05:07:31PM CEST: Nice way of saying we need a bug tracking system. :-))) The OpenLDAP Project uses jitterbugs, which is pretty

Re: Win32 libltdl issue

Charles Wilson wrote: Howard Chu wrote: One other annoying gotcha when building with libtool and Win32 is that libtool (at least in the 1.x line) assumed that any lib*.a was a static library, and refused to link it into a DLL. It didn't account for the possibility that the library was actually

Win32 libltdl issue

this dynamically/automatically at compile time. Since LT_SCOPE is only used for the three lt_*alloc/free function pointers, I suggest removing these declarations completely and using accessor functions to set/get their values. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun

Re: TODO

, but I find a lot of instances of /home/hyc/BLD/opt/foo that I have to squash by manually relinking. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

Re: libltdl and Windows

was requested. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Convenieve libraries and applications.

to create shared libraries as well. E.g. it now spits out ld -r -o libfoo.lo $(OBJS) ld -G -o libfoo.so libfoo.lo This makes things go a lot faster when you run libtool --mode=install if it needs to relink the target library. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director

Re: Convenieve libraries and applications.

the application with the --whole-archive/--no-whole-archive linker flags around the convenience libraries. But, libtool doesn't let me do that :/ -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas

Re: Porting to OS/390...Need hints

something. I completed a port of libtool 1.4.3 to OS/390 last year: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-04/msg00061.html -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource

Re: Porting to OS/390...Need hints

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RE: Linking against indirect dependencies

(thus forcing the PLT or whatever dynamic init code to be present). -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

list policies

Is this list open to everyone, or subscribers only? It would be nice if the spam was eliminated. Can you moderate new subscribers or something? -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas

RE: Version numbering

: .001 - .999. If you make more than 1000 patches to something you really ought to consider calling it at least a new minor release. For my own use I'd be happy with hexadecimal MM.mm.pp; again if I'm packaging 255 patches to a release I think it deserves to have a new release number. -- Howard

RE: Request for option to disable building of static library

, the second rejected. Supposedly libtool 1.5 supports this now with tags, but 1.5 has proven extremely difficult to use in migrations and I see very little acceptance of it in the projects I work with (OpenLDAP, Cyrus-SASL, Sleepycat BDB, etc.). -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp

RE: How to specify a version script?

been able to work around this by replacing their bundled libtool with libtool 1.4.2 in our own builds, which works a lot better on the variety of platforms we deal with. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http

RE: library relocation

That can only happen because the linker didn't find a libc in your first -L directory. Fix that, that's your real problem. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource

RE: library relocation

I think you've got a good point here. Sorry I don't have time at the moment to write up an appropriate patch. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development

RE: library relocation

, and then to avoid any undesired -L paths from being embedded, I symlink any missing -L dependent libraries into the target directory, cd to the target directory and link from there, using -L. in the final link. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http

RE: Libtool 1.4.3

drop-in replacement for 1.4.2. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support ___ Libtool mailing list

Libtool 1.4.2 and EBCDIC

SP2NL='tr \040 \012' NL2SP='tr \015\012 \040\040' + ;; + esac # NLS nuisances. # Only set LANG and LC_ALL to C if already set. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier

libtool 1.4.2 and MinGW

creates libfoo.dll.a. When I link against libfoo.la, why does it then try to create and link against .libs/libimp-libfoo.dll? It should just look for and use libfoo.dll.a. The second issue is just annoying, the first issue causes an otherwise legitimate build process to fail. -- Howard Chu

RE: building static on AIX

it in a mode it wasn't configured for, I would hope that you change things such that you can make libtool run either way regardless of *the default* mode that you configure into it... -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com

RE: building static on AIX

objects as input, and yes, it's smart enough to extract just the pieces it needs, it won't pull in the entire object file on a static link.) -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier

RE: -lc fix for BSD/OS and FreeBSD

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RE: [Patch] interlibrary dependency parsing in libltdl from CVS HEAD

That's not a problem, since stat() follows symlinks. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Utz-Uwe

branch 1.3 ltdl.c AIX win32

.) There are also a couple small bugfixes to the win32 support - don't call strchr on NULL filenames, and treat a NULL handle as a reference to the main program. I will try to generate a patch against the HEAD branch next. Howard Chu - Black GTS http://highlandsun.com http://people.we.mediaone.net/hyc

FW: libtool update likely breaks modules...

) that supports tags which supports this functionality, but that doesn't help since the feature is not in the officially released version. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc -Original Message