[PATCH] Use libtool -export-dynamic flag for portability

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Wed Feb 24 07:14:23 PST 2010


Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> The linker flag required for exporting symbols in executables varies
> by platform.  libtool handles this with a single -export-dynamic
> flag (not to be confused with the similarly-named ELF linker flag)
> which tells it to use the correct platform-specific flag at link time.

Is libtool used to build the Xorg binary itself?   I thought it was
just invoked for the libraries & modules.

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	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System



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