On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

: any comments if the below libtool change for a.out makes sense?  

Okay, what is this check supposed to show?  That a library is either static
or shared?  (In that case, checking for '.a' vs. '.so*' should be fine,
or if you're really anal about it, look for the !<arch>\n magic signature.)

I really don't want to see a script depend solely on [arbitrary] strings
output by file(1) as a determination method.  file(1) is NOT part of the
ABI.

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