Re: Problem on cygwin linking convenience libraries into a convenience library?

2006-05-16 Thread Olly Betts
[Cc:-ing Patrick, who originally hit this problem] On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:58:28AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Olly Betts wrote on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:10:04AM CEST: (I'm not totally sold on this approach - all those convenience libraries take up a lot of space, and creating them

Problem on cygwin linking convenience libraries into a convenience library?

2006-05-15 Thread Olly Betts
I'll apologise up front that this isn't the world's greatest bug report. Unfortunately I don't have access to a viable cygwin platform for testing this myself, so I just have end-user reports to go on. My library currently builds by linking files in each directory into a convenience library, and

Re: Problem on cygwin linking convenience libraries into a convenience library?

2006-05-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Olly, * Olly Betts wrote on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:10:04AM CEST: My library currently builds by linking files in each directory into a convenience library, and then all all these convenience libraries get linked into the real library, along with a dummy C++ source file so that libtool

Linking convenience libraries

2005-03-03 Thread Albert Chin
When using the compiler to perform the link and linking against convenience libraries, is there any reason to link explicitly against the extracted objects of the convenience libraries rather than just the .a file? I'm running into a problem on IRIX with the SGI C++ compiler that is solved if I

Re: Linking convenience libraries

2005-03-03 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Albert Chin wrote: When using the compiler to perform the link and linking against convenience libraries, is there any reason to link explicitly against the extracted objects of the convenience libraries rather than just the .a file? I'm running into a problem on IRIX with the

Re: Linking convenience libraries

2005-03-03 Thread Albert Chin
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:41:00AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: When using the compiler to perform the link and linking against convenience libraries, is there any reason to link explicitly against the extracted objects of the convenience libraries rather than just the .a file? I'm running into a

Re: Linking convenience libraries

2005-03-03 Thread Albert Chin
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:01:26PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Albert Chin wrote: When using the compiler to perform the link and linking against convenience libraries, is there any reason to link explicitly against the extracted objects of the convenience libraries

Re: Linking convenience libraries

2005-03-03 Thread Albert Chin
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:39:36PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:01:26PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Albert Chin wrote: When using the compiler to perform the link and linking against convenience libraries, is there any reason to link