Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-29 Thread Schleicher Ralph (LLI)
albert chin writes: > Anyone available to review this patch? I'll take the action. -- Ralph ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-24 Thread Albert Chin
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:48:54AM +0200, Schleicher Ralph (LLI) wrote: > Howard Chu writes: > > > I've requested this feature and sent patches for it at least twice over the > > past 3 years. The first time was silently ignored, the second rejected. > > I submitted a patch on 2003-02-10 for the

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Schleicher Ralph (LLI)
Howard Chu writes: > I've requested this feature and sent patches for it at least twice over the > past 3 years. The first time was silently ignored, the second rejected. I submitted a patch on 2003-02-10 for the upcomming Libtool 1.5 release but it was silently ignored, too. -- Ralph _

RE: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Howard Chu
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter O'Gorman > Adding this feature would not require significant effort, > just add the > new flag, set the var to no ought to work as you suggest. The > question > is rather would it be accepted. If you

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Sander Niemeijer
Hi, Does anybody know whether such a -no-static option for the libtool link mode is feasable? Can this be implemented by just adding a -no-static option to libtool that sets the internal libtool variable 'build_old_libs' to 'no' or would such a feature require some more effort? Adding this feat

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-07-22T22:02+0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote: ) On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Sander Niemeijer wrote: ) > A few other libraries, however, are plug-ins (modules created with the ) > '-module' flag) that only need to be delivered as shared libraries. ) Firstly, in case you were wondering

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 11:32 PM, Nick Hudson wrote: OK, a better question is does anyone run an operating system that needs this feature still? I don't know the answer to this particular question, so I'll answer a different one :) This feature, if used more widely, would have been great

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread gary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:02 pm, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > > Firstly, in case you were wondering why libtool builds static libraries > > even for loadable modules, libtool via. ltdl supports loading modules > > on systems without dynamic loading capabilities using the >

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Nick Hudson
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:02 pm, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > > > Firstly, in case you were wondering why libtool builds static libraries > > > even for loadable modules, libtool via. ltdl supports loading modules

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Nick Hudson
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:02 pm, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Sander Niemeijer wrote: > > > > > > In our situation it is not possible to just disable building of static > > libraries on a global level for our package, since our package > > provides multiple

Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

2003-07-22 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Sander Niemeijer wrote: In our situation it is not possible to just disable building of static libraries on a global level for our package, since our package provides multiple libraries and some of them need to be provided in both static and shared vers