On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 03:05:06PM +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > On Saturday 06 August 2011, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 02:42:59PM +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > > > The auto-tools based build system of FluidSynth is deprecated, and > > > was using libtool. The new CMake based build system does not use > > > libtool. > > > > That's unfortunate. Consider using libtool. This level of shared > > library manipulation is annoyingly non-portable, and implementing > > support for every platform is tiresome. libtool exists to solve this > > problem, so doing it yourself is just "rewriting libtool". > > > > (If you only want to support glibc-elf, it's easy, but I don't think > > that's relevant here) > > We have already seen libtool doing a poor job with FluidSynth in Mac OSX.
Well, your alternative is to become an expert on the shared library systems of all interesting platforms and spend a lot of time reinventing what libtool does and writing lengthly rants about how appalling the various platforms are. I can personally attest to the profound insanity of shared library behaviour on glibc-elf and windows, neither of which do what any reasonable person would expect or desire. The documentation is also wrong or non-existant and you must consult the code to find out what really happens. I usually find this is a yak-shaving exercise when you want something to work on more than one platform, but it's just a question of what you want to spend time on. (If anybody wants to write a better libtool, that would be nice) _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
