about: [ 01204 ] patch to build shared libraries (more) portable
found in the patches tracker
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1501204&group_id=5776&atid=305776
Some more info about the patch:
There are some problems building shared libraries for
an architecture whose shared-libs do not allow
"undefined" symbols, e.g. Cygwin.