automake vs. GNU make

automake vs. GNU make

Posted Feb 7, 2008 5:02 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (subscriber, #421)
In reply to: automake vs. GNU make by jamesh
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions

Even if there are no library inter-dependencies in your library, you must specify -no-undefined or libtool will refuse to build it on AIX or MinGW, since libtool is apparently unable to detect automatically whether there are unresolved symbols at link time. But you're right that the flag can also be used if you specify library dependencies with -l flags explicitly at link time.

I've also heard that this is useful for prelinking as well, as you mention.

(Apparently, -no-undefined used to be the default, which seems sensible to me, but supposedly they got too many complaints.)

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