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Subject: RE: libtool devel package still  dll crippled.
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:52:58 +1000
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 6:15 PM

> I had recgonized problems with the 
> allow_undefined_flag=unsupported and have tried only with 
> "no", which works. Yet I have tried with "yes" it works too. 
> So its no problem for me to use "yes".

Cool. Using yes (or blank, blank is preferred IIRC), means that a purely
unix package will build .dll's on cygwin, without any hacks needed
(given the auto-import caveats_.
 
>   _LT_AC_TAGVAR(always_export_symbols, $1)=yes
> 
> Using "yes" causes libtool to use nm to generate a symbol
> list, which is avoided by setting to "no".

Are the symbol tables identical in both cases? Would Danny's whole
archive patch help the symbols? I think there must be some way to
prevent ld outputting the imported symbols as well as the exported
symbols...

Anyway, setting always_export to 'no' should be ok for now. Over the
next week I'll do some testing and get back to the list.
 
Rob