1997-08-21 13:16:08 +08:00
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For next public release:
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1998-01-26 03:35:11 +08:00
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* Get rid of the sections that try to change behaviour for GNU ld. We
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really should make our shared library support just depend on the
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compiler type.
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1997-08-12 23:19:11 +08:00
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1998-01-26 03:35:11 +08:00
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* Alexandre Oliva suggests that we hardcode paths into libraries, as
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well as binaries: `... -Wl,-soname -Wl,/tmp/libtest.so.0 ...'.
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1998-02-06 15:36:38 +08:00
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* Implement full support for other orthogonal library types
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(libhello_g, libhello_p, 64 vs 32-bit ABI's, etc). Make these types
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configurable.
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1997-08-21 13:16:08 +08:00
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In the future:
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1997-11-28 00:57:00 +08:00
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* Inter-library dependencies should be automatically tracked by
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libtool. Reminded by Alexandre Oliva. This also would require
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looking up installed libtool libraries for transparent support.
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1997-08-12 23:19:11 +08:00
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* Implement full multi-language support. Currently, this is only for
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C++, but there are beginnings of this in the manual (Other Languages).
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This includes writing libtool not to be so dependent on the compiler
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used to configure it.
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We especially need this for C++ linking, for which libtool currently
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does not handle static constructors properly, even on operating
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systems that support them. ``Don't use static constructors'' is no
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longer a satisfactory answer.
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1997-09-15 20:31:09 +08:00
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People who need it:
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Jean Daniel Fekete <Jean-Daniel.Fekete@emn.fr>
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Thomas Hiller <hiller@tu-harburg.d400.de>
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1997-08-28 02:21:56 +08:00
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* Writing libtool as a shell script means that proper variable quoting
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is a real problem. Be careful when `eval'ing a string that the
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arguments are properly quoted. Note that arguments with embedded
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whitespace probably will cause problems (because of IFS).
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I don't have good ideas on to fix the problems with whitespace, other
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than subverting IFS entirely, perhaps always using an `eval "set
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$quoted_args"' sequence.
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1997-06-30 20:20:49 +08:00
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* Another form of convenience library, suggested by Alexandre Oliva,
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is to have undocumented utility libraries, where only the shared
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version is installed.
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1997-07-22 01:31:05 +08:00
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* We could use libtool object convenience libraries that resolve
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1998-01-26 03:35:11 +08:00
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symbols to be included in a libtool archive. This would require some
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sort of -whole-archive option, as well.
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1997-07-22 01:31:05 +08:00
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1997-07-01 12:38:32 +08:00
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* Somehow we need to make sure that static libraries never appear in
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1997-10-22 13:00:03 +08:00
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$deplibs. This, will probably require that libtool discover exactly
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which files would be linked from which directories when somebody says
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`-lsomething'. This adds a lot of complexity, but I see no other way
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around it.
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1997-07-01 12:38:32 +08:00
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1997-07-09 01:08:33 +08:00
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* Need to finalize the documentation, and give a specification of
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`.la' files so that people can depend on their format. This also
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needs to be done so that DLD uses a public interface to libtool
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archives. This would be a good thing to put before the maintainance
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notes.
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1997-05-25 06:50:52 +08:00
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Things to think about:
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1997-04-02 03:04:40 +08:00
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1997-05-25 06:50:52 +08:00
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* Talk with RMS about his so-called `automatic package generation
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tool.' This is probably what Thomas has been murmuring about for the
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Hurd. We'll need to integrate package-supplied programs such as
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libtool into that scheme, since it manages some of the preinstall and
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postinstall commands, but isn't installed itself. Probably, things
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like libtool should be distributed as part of such a binary package.
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* Add support for windoze DLL's, and maybe other jumptable libs.
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Check out Lesstif and Tcl configuration again (maybe they would be
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interested in libtool by now?). The Cygnus win32 project may also be
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of value, though it still seems pretty rudimentary right now.
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