From: Jan Kneschke <Jan.Kneschke@kiel.netsurf.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:26:04 +0200 (MEST)

Re: required libs

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, MenTaLguY wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jan Kneschke wrote:
> 
> > your choice   | lib 	      | my guess
> 
> > 		(dl) required
> 
> Only required if dynamic linking is enabled -- man, we need to figure out
> how we want to deal with static systems like DOS; I don't think we've
> actually got a specific setup planned for that yet, do we?  Also, note that
> it is dld instead of dl on some systems (i.e. HP-UX).  I believe there is an
> autoconf/automake macro for testing for each.  The required dl version is
> often dependent on the version of libc availible, at least as far as major
> versions go, I think.
until then its required.

> 
> > 		(posix4)	rec
> 
> Depends on the system.  On some, you may need to require it to get "sane" 
> (i.e. Posix-conformant) behavior with a few things; don't know if they are
> that major, or would affect anything imporant to LibGGI, though. 
one target required it.

> -=MenTaLguY=-
> 
> P.S. by the way, if you havn't already done so, you should definitely
> investigate using libtool; Marcus' complaint about it stemmed from libtool
> commands taking twice as long as the equivalent gcc commands when he tried
> compiling a package using it, but I suspect that was because it was
> compiling both shared and static libraries (that is, two compilation passes,
> one for each, since they often require different compiler flags -- i.e. 
> -fPIC).  Compling both shared and static verisons is often the default for
> libtoolized stuff.
itīs already done.
> 
> Assuming you don't find any major problems, and if we'd be using automake
> otherwise, libtool seems to do a wonderful job of abstracting the messy
> platform-specific bits of building shared or static libraries on many, many
> systems.
i use autoconf/automake/libtool for now. 
 


thats all
  Jan

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