libtoolized some older libs

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Wed Sep 29 09:27:00 GMT 2004


On Sep 28 19:14, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >I made several /usr/lib/.la file for libs which could be loaded shared 
> >(at run-time) for myself to enable shared and smaller modules for the 
> >bigger stuff I'm working on. php, clamav, postgresql, ...
> 
> Whether a .la file exists or not has NO bearing on whether the library 
> can be loaded dynamically (either implicitly by the windows runtime 
> loader, or explicitly via dlopen()/LoadLibrary()/etc).
> 
> The .dll.a & .dll files for these packages are fine.  There is nothing 
> wrong with them.
> 
> Except they weren't produced by libtool.  BFD.

Erm, why?  OpenSSL doesn't use libtool for producing shared libs, even
on any other platform.  What's the deal?


Corinna

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