Re: [patch #10371] Simplify darwin check

Sevan Janiyan <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:44:59 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches
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On 17/07/2023 00:23, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> 
>  From ld(1) on 10.4
> "-single_module
>                When building a dynamic library build the library  so 
> that  it contains only one module.
> 
> -multi_module(32-bitonly)
>                When  building a dynamic library build the library so 
> that it contains one module for each object file linked in.  This is the 
> default."
> 
>  From ld(1) on 10.15
> "-single_module
>                This is now the default so does not need to be specified.
> 
> -multi_module
>                Multi-modules in dynamic libraries have been ignored at 
> run-time since Mac OS X 10.4.0.  This option is obsolete."
> 
> It looks like the default behaviour of the linker changed at some point 
> after 10.4.

 From ld(1) on 10.5
"-single_module
                This is now the default so does not need to be specified.

-multi_module
                Multi-modules in dynamic libraries have been ignored at 
run-time since Mac OS X 10.4.0.  This option is obsolete."