On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 04:34 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > > > You should keep in mind that the convenience archives will end up in > > > total (i.e., all their symbols, not just needed ones) in the resulting > > > module. > > > > This is a good point, thank you. Do you have any more information > > somewhere that elaborates on this point? > > The Libtool manual has more details about this (but it's arguably a bit > cryptic about convenience archives). I'm not sure what you need to > know.
Since Im leaning to this method, Id like to investigate just what sort of inefficiencies Im going to incur this way. Basically I don't know a whole lot about the details of dynamic linking, so Id like to learn whats happening, if possible/reasonable. > > > What is the "module" target? > > Oh, I forgot. If you install the modules in $(libdir), just use > lib_LTLIBRARIES; for the above to work you need something like > moduledir = $(libdir)/foo > > or similar (e.g., pkglibdir; or a setting in configure.ac). > > You should not forget the libtool link flag -module (libA_la_LDFLAGS). This sounds interesting, is there a place I can read about this modules bit? > > Cheers, > Ralf > Cheers,
