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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1997-07-01 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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$deplibs. If a program linked against a library doesn't contain the
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basename of the library (or is the same size), then the library is
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probably static.
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1997-05-25 06:50:52 +08:00
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* A better check to detect broken collect2 on AIX, once the bug is
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fixed in GCC.
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1997-04-02 03:21:43 +08:00
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1997-05-25 06:50:52 +08:00
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* We could use libtool object convenience libraries that resolve
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symbols to be included in a libtool archive.
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1997-04-02 03:04:40 +08:00
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1997-06-30 20:20:49 +08:00
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* Delete dlname mode, and integrate DLD support. We need a way for
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different major versions of the same .la to coexist. This also
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involves writing a better uninstall mode, so that nothing breaks.
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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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* 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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1997-04-02 03:00:38 +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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* Implement full support for other orthogonal library types
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(libhello_g, libhello_p). Make these types configurable. Some
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thinking will have to be done about the defaults, and what libhello
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(standard type) should be.
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1997-04-02 03:00:38 +08:00
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1997-04-02 03:04:40 +08:00
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Maybe we should just add an autoconf macro and get creative with
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1997-05-25 06:50:52 +08:00
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library_transform_name, or something. These changes should be
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1997-04-02 03:04:40 +08:00
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partially driven by the needs of packaging tools, such as RPM and
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dpkg.
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1997-04-02 03:00:38 +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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