dylibs for libtools and friends?

Fri Feb 28 06:19:00 GMT 2003

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>"Andreas" == Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch> writes:
>>> Andreas> how do I make dylibs (darwin shared libraries) known to
> Andreas> libtools and friends in libgcj/libltdl?
>> I'm not so sure about libltdl. I haven't spent very much time looking
> at it. One thing to do would be to check the upstream libtool to see
> if the support is already there. If not, I suggest doing your port
> there first.

Ok, this is what I found out as well.
>> In libgcj, the platform header defines the library prefix and suffix.
> For Darwin you'd want to conditionally define this in include/posix.h.

Heh, this is the easier part I hope.
>> Andreas> Also I wonder how many dependencies we have from toplevel
> Andreas> libtool files?
>> I don't know what you mean.

The toplevel libtool, ltmain.sh, ltconfig etc. In gcc. /ltcf-gcj.sh ?
>> Andreas> Are there any plans to update libtool files in libgcj to
> Andreas> match the latest dylib checks?
>> Nobody is working on it. If you want to give it a try, that would be
> great. I don't know of a reason not to do it.

I can try, but first I have to find an up-to-date libtool. And then I 
have to find about the magic flag enable_shared which gets disabled. 
Somehwere in the toplevel gcc dir.
It's not that transparent and obvious...
Thanks,
Andreas