Re: minor issues when building ncurses-5.6 with libtool

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 20 March 2008, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 13:49 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 March 2008, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> > > there are two minor issues (depending on libtool and compiler used).
> > > 1) The libtool object files are still called '.o' (should be '.lo').
> >
> > err, no.  if a file ends in .o it means the object was built without PIC.
> >  if it ends in .lo it means the object was built with PIC.  it does not
> > mean .lo was built with libtool and .o was not.
>
> AFAIK, .lo is the generic object file of libtool, being a text file,
> basically containing two lines of shellcode:

sorry, you're right of course.  not sure why ncurses accesses the files 
directly when libtool should handle all the redirection for you.
-mike

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