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From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
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Subject: [Xenomai-core] Re: skin libs, libtool warnings, and -module
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
> 
> I noticed you fixed the libtool warning during xenomai build - by
> linking the testsuite statically... :-/ This is just a workaround and
> doesn't help external users.

Yes, it's clearly hacky-patchy, however, I don't see how this would impact 
external users (yet)?

> 
> Isn't the reason for this warnings that "-module" in every skin
> Makefile.am? At least, removing it also fixes external apps. Do we need
> it? I don't think so: -module is for preparing dlopen usage, but who
> will use it with skin libs?


E.g. People who need to do late binding from some interpreter engine to the 
routines defined by those APIs.

-- 

Philippe.