Re: g++/GNU ld/position independent libraries

[William A. Hoffman]

At 10:47 AM 1/18/2002 +0000, Jason Merrill wrote:

> GCC shared libraries should always be built with gcc -shared.  -nostdlib is
> wrong.

OK, I'll bite, how should they be built?  I guess you would have to figure 
out if the libstdc++ was built shared or
not then add or remove the -nostdlib?   If libstdc++ is built static then 
you have to have the -nostdlib.
At least for gcc 2.9.5 this was the default installation for solaris.

> I haven't heard about problems with Solaris shared libraries and GNU ld,
> though that doesn't mean there aren't any.  You really want to use GNU as
> and ld for C++ if at all possible, so that duplicate template
> instantiations, vtables and such get discarded.

I think on solaris global Weak symbols are used anyway, and both linkers 
should get rid of duplicates right?


> Jason