Get rid of libtool? [was Re: Makefile problems]

Tue Feb 26 17:57:00 GMT 2002

On 25 Feb 2002, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > - real incremental linking (*not* convenience libraries, which are a lousy
> > substitute).
>> Which of the definitions of incremental linking are you talking about?

ld -r
> > For instance, libgcj assumes public data symbols are exported by
> > default, which certainly isn't true on windows at least.
>> Are you talking of -export-dynamic or something entirely different?

I'm talking about the dllimport/dllexport mess. Actually the dllexport is
solved, I think... it's the dllimport that can't be automated by libtool.
Point is, there are characteristics of shared lib implementations that
cannot be abstracted away... so is it worth trying?
The latter is a problem for libgcj on windows. C/C++ would use
__attribute__((dllimport)) to import data members. Java has no such
mechanism however.
Jeff