Re: Build C++ shared libs on HP-UX with aCC, not ld

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Gary V.Vaughan wrote:
> > 2004-09-05  Albert Chin-A-Young  <address@hidden>
> >
> >         * m4/libtool.m4: Use the HP C++ compiler to build C++
> >         shared libraries, not ld.
>
> Before I apply this patch, I wonder: Is now the time to move wholesale for 
> using the C++ compiler for linking C++ libraries?  In addition to giving 
> (hopefully) better reliability, we should be able to drop all the code for 
> trying to guess how the compiler will call the linker if it turns out to work 
> well...
>
> Thoughts?

That would depend on if we know how to instruct the C++ compiler to 
build a shared library for all supported environments.  Is that the 
case?

Bob
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