libtool alpha.

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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On 2 Aug 2004, at 16:08, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
>
> > > I hope so too, but only after is resumes passing all tests on 
> > > FreeBSD and darwin :).
> > And Solaris?  Under Solaris, pretty much the same list of tests is 
> > failing as under FreeBSD.
> > However, an alpha package will make it easier to test across many 
> > systems, even if some tests are known to fail when the package is 
> > created.
>
> I agree.

All test's pass for me on OS X Panther... how odd!

I've been thinking about the deplibs issue.  What is happening is that 
when libtool
preopens dyld.la and dlopen.la, *their* deplibs are added to 
libltdlc.la.  Even though libltdlc.la contains all the objects from 
libdlloader.so, it is added to libltdlc.la
dependency_libs because it is listed in the dependency_libs of dyld.la 
and dlopen.la :-(

I think the best way to fix it is to remove the libdlloader objects 
from libltdlc_la_LIBADD, but to -dlpreopen libdlloader.la too.  I can 
then scan through the dependency_libs and remove any libraries that 
have already been dlpreopened.

Comments?

When we've solved this issue, I can roll the alpha release.  I think 
that considering
the m4 API has changed, libltdl is not binary compatible, and libtool 
itself is built
differently now, the next release should be libtool-2.0.  It would be 
nice to do the
Grand Renaming to move all of libtool's m4 macros into the LT_ and _LT_ 
namespace before
the final release.

Anyhoo, following the release naming scheme, the alpha will be 1.9b...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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