On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Daniel Kochmański <daniel@turtleware.eu> wrote:
Faré writes:
Difficulties making monolithic-lib-op portable suggest that it (and maybe also lib-op) should output an object file as if by ld -r rather than a static library. Indeed, there is no *portable* way to combine several .a files into a single one on a BSD system (including MacOS X). Or should that be the case only on said systems?
We have currently bug regarding combining static libraries[1], but doesn't BSD nor OSX support libtool? If yes, then we can just extract all objects from static archive and combine them again.
[1] https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/issues/177
In one of the comments @Whimse provides a working solution using libtool.
Do you require libtool to be installed on BSD (including OSX)? It certainly doesn't come standard, not even on Linux. Also, I could never get libtool to work correctly, even on Linux, despite having alleged cut-and-paste recipes and a man page. I was thinking about MRI scripts, but they are also a GNUism not supported on BSD. Why do we need a .a rather than a .o, anyway? For the proposed use case, a .o seems more reasonable. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org Director is a misnomer. You're a hoper. You put all these people together and you hope it all works out. — Frank Oz, director of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"