From Guido Draheim <Guido.Draheim@tek.com>:

* ltmain.in: Display better and different error messages when
library linkage fails in various ways.
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Gary V. Vaughan 2001-08-05 11:29:09 +00:00
parent 1f075cd273
commit 31093223cb
3 changed files with 43 additions and 13 deletions

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2001-08-05 Gary V. Vuaghan <gary@gnu.org>
From Guido Draheim <Guido.Draheim@tek.com>:
* ltmain.in: Display better and different error messages when
library linkage fails in various ways.
2001-08-05 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
* libtool.m4 (_LT_AC_SYS_LIBPATH_AIX): Add newline after

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NEWS
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New in 1.4d: 2001-??-??; CVS version 1.4c, Libtool team:
* Help strings display correctly again.
* Better error messages when library linking fails.
* Support /lib/w32api in recent cygwin releases.
* Support cross compilation to mingw.
* Improved support for linking with gcc on aix4* and aix5*.
* Improved support for GCC 3.0.
* Initial support for QNX RTOS, UnixWare 7 and OpenUNIX 8.
* Bug fixes to the OpenBSD port.
* Bug fixes.
New in 1.4b: 2001-07-09; CVS version 1.4a, Libtool team:

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@ -1789,10 +1789,12 @@ EOF
lib)
if test "$deplibs_check_method" != pass_all; then
echo
echo "*** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by $deplib."
echo "*** Warning: Trying to link with static lib archive $deplib."
echo "*** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when"
echo "*** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a"
echo "*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have."
echo "*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have"
echo "*** because the file extensions .$libext of this argument makes me believe"
echo "*** that it is just a static archive that I should not used here."
else
echo
echo "*** Warning: Linking the shared library $output against the"
@ -2274,13 +2276,14 @@ EOF
# Just print a warning and add the library to dependency_libs so
# that the program can be linked against the static library.
echo
echo "*** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by $lib."
echo "*** Warning: This system can not link to static lib archive $lib."
echo "*** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when"
echo "*** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a"
echo "*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have."
if test "$module" = yes; then
echo "*** Therefore, libtool will create a static module, that should work "
echo "*** as long as the dlopening application is linked with the -dlopen flag."
echo "*** But as you try to build a module library, libtool will still create "
echo "*** a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening application"
echo "*** is linked with the -dlopen flag to resolve symbols at runtime."
if test -z "$global_symbol_pipe"; then
echo
echo "*** However, this would only work if libtool was able to extract symbol"
@ -2876,10 +2879,12 @@ EOF
else
droppeddeps=yes
echo
echo "*** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by $i."
echo "*** Warning: dynamic linker does not accept needed library $i."
echo "*** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when"
echo "*** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a"
echo "*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have."
echo "*** shared version of the library, which I believe you do not have"
echo "*** because a test_compile did reveal that the linker did not use it for"
echo "*** its dynamic dependency list that programs get resolved with at runtime."
fi
else
newdeplibs="$newdeplibs $i"
@ -2906,10 +2911,12 @@ EOF
else
droppeddeps=yes
echo
echo "*** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by $i."
echo "*** Warning: dynamic linker does not accept needed library $i."
echo "*** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when"
echo "*** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a"
echo "*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have."
echo "*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have"
echo "*** because a test_compile did reveal that the linker did not use this one"
echo "*** as a dynamic dependency that programs can get resolved with at runtime."
fi
else
droppeddeps=yes
@ -2966,10 +2973,17 @@ EOF
if test -n "$a_deplib" ; then
droppeddeps=yes
echo
echo "*** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by $a_deplib."
echo "*** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library $a_deplib."
echo "*** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when"
echo "*** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a"
echo "*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have."
echo "*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have"
echo "*** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting"
if test -z "$potlib" ; then
echo "*** with $libname but no candidates were found. (...for file magic test)"
else
echo "*** with $libname and none of the candidates passed a file format test"
echo "*** using a file magic. Last file checked: $potlib"
fi
fi
else
# Add a -L argument.
@ -2988,6 +3002,7 @@ EOF
for i in $lib_search_path $sys_lib_search_path $shlib_search_path; do
potential_libs=`ls $i/$libname[.-]* 2>/dev/null`
for potent_lib in $potential_libs; do
potlib="$potent_lib" # see symlink-check above in file_magic test
if eval echo \"$potent_lib\" 2>/dev/null \
| sed 10q \
| egrep "$match_pattern_regex" > /dev/null; then
@ -3000,10 +3015,17 @@ EOF
if test -n "$a_deplib" ; then
droppeddeps=yes
echo
echo "*** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by $a_deplib."
echo "*** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library $a_deplib."
echo "*** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when"
echo "*** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a"
echo "*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have."
echo "*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have"
echo "*** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting"
if test -z "$potlib" ; then
echo "*** with $libname but no candidates were found. (...for regex pattern test)"
else
echo "*** with $libname and none of the candidates passed a file format test"
echo "*** using a regex pattern. Last file checked: $potlib"
fi
fi
else
# Add a -L argument.