libtool devel auto-import broken

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephano Mariani [mailto:sk.mail@btinternet.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 9:12 PM
> To: 'Charles Wilson'; Robert Collins
> Cc: 'CygWin-Apps'
> Subject: RE: libtool devel auto-import broken
> 
> 
> I would like to test these new versions of the autotools if I 
> may. I am a very autotools dependent user and use it 
> frequently enough to warrant dissecting it and learning much 
> more about their internals :)
> 
> I have noticed however that using automake (1.5) and libtool 
> (1.4e) there is no way to prevent symbols being exported. I 
> have therefore had to resort to patching my binutils to 
> prevent every symbol from being exported :(

There is a bin-utils export-filter command you can use instead of
patching IIRC. Mind you, we resorted to patching binutils to get libtool
to do what we want :].

Rob