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List:       ethereal-users
Subject:    Re: [Ethereal-users] tiny patch for ethereal-0.10.9
From:       Andrew Hood <ajhood () fl ! net ! au>
Date:       2005-01-28 12:04:03
Message-ID: 41FA2A33.7000207 () fl ! net ! au
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Guy Harris wrote:
> You meant "three tiny patches." :-)
> 
> Yoshihiro Oyama wrote:
> 
>>  * fix: link error of plugins/irda/packet-irda.o      with 
>> --enable-static
> 
> 
> Checked in.
> 
> That fix reveals an ugly problem - the top-level Makefile.am not only 
> has to know all the plugins, to put them into the plugin_ldadd list for 
> non-static builds, it has to know the names of all the object files for 
> those plugins, to put them into the plugin_ldadd list for static builds.
> 
> That means that if a new plugin is added, *all* the object names need to 
> be listed there - you can't just put, for the "xyzzy" plugin, 
> "packet-xyzzy.o", if that plugin has more than one object file.
> 
> It also means that if a new object file is added to a plugin, the 
> top-level Makefile.am has to be updated.
> 
> Is there a better way to do this?  For example, could a static build 
> construct a ".a" file (on UN*X; I don't know whether a ".lib" file or a 
> ".a" file or what would be built on Windows+Cygwin or any other Windows 
> build environment that would use autoconf and other UN*Xy tools) in the 
> plugin directory, with all the ".o" files added to it, and link have the 
> ".a" file be in the plugin_ldadd list?  At least that way only the 
> plugin's Makefile.am file would have to know what object files are in 
> the plugin.

 From a *nix'ish perspective, if the objects are compiled so as to be 
shareable, putting them in a "libxxx.a" doesn't break that. Then when 
you come to link, whether it be for a shared lib or not, you can include 
them as -L/whereever/ -lxxx

Why shouldn't that work just as well on Windows?

You might even come up with a command line that works with Solaris' 
default sed :-)

-- 
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
                 -- Dr. Who

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