[CF-Devel] libtool with plugins

[Mark Wedel]

Kurt Fitzner wrote:
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      I'm wondering if anyone has thought to use libtool to compile the shared
     
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      object file for plugins.  The problem with the current setup is that it is
     
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      extremely Linux-centric.  Other platforms don't necesarily use .so as the
     
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      share object name.  I'm also not sure why Linux doesn't barf on the fact that
     
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      libcross.a isn't made up of position-independant object files.
     
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      If someone hasn't done this yet, or isn't currently working on it, I'll be
     
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      happy to make a patch that will make it more platform-independant.
     
     
  There is an automake patch for crossfire that does use libtool.  I'm currently 
evaluating the patch - I have some issues with the verbosity of the compile 
messages.

  As for libcross.a - why should it care - that is a static library, that is 
linked in statically.  Same is true for libsocket.a for that matter.  There is 
really no reason to make those shared libraries, because the versions are tied 
very closely to crossfire, and it is not like there will be more than one 
process running on the system that may use those shared objects and thus have 
some benefit of reduced memory.