From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Nov 26 12:55:35 2002
Subject: Re: Shared libs on OSX
From: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:55:11 +0100


On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 06:42 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> | Hence, I'd like to split SH_LD and SH_LDFLAGS into SH_LD, SH_LDFLAGS,
> | DL_LD and DL_LDFLAGS where the default is DL_LD=SH_LD and
> | DL_LDFLAGS=SH_LDFLAGS for systems other than OS X.
> |
> | I've attached a patch with the changes so you can comment on the
> | suggestion.
>
> This seems to suggest that the MKOCTFILE_SH_* variables should also be
> renamed MKOCTFILE_DL_* becuase mkoctfile is creating files that can be
> dynamically linked, but that are not shared libraries on all systems.

Indeed.

>
> Is that OK?  Are we reinventing something here, that will make it
> more difficult to switch to libtool?
>

I really don't know.

> Does libtool support OS X?

Yes, at least to some extent. There was some discussion of the state of 
darwin support on the libtool developer list recently. I'm not very 
familiar with (GNU)libtool but it seems to have gone trough a lot of 
changes recently.
I'll see if I can dig out some more info.

Just to add to the confusion, Apple provides a tool named libtool which 
is unrelated to GNUlibtool (which is installed as glibtool...)

/Per

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