Re: Solaris, combining a bunch of convenience archives

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Albert Chin wrote on Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:42:21PM CEST:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:18:28PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Since on Solaris we sometimes use `$CC' for linking though (CVS HEAD
> > uses $CC instead of $LD in this case), this is not sufficient.  AFAICS
> > the linker driver fails when all he gets is `-Wl,..' args:
> > 
> > $ cc -G -h libfoo.so.0 -o .libs/libfoo.so -Wl,-z 
> > -Wl,allextract,.libs/libconv.a -Wl,-z -Wl,defaultextract -ldl -laio -lm 
> > -lnsl -lsocket -lc -xarch=v9 -mt
> > usage: cc [ options] files.  Use 'cc -flags' for details 

> > I haven't found a good way to persuade the compiler driver to invoke the
> > linker anyway yet.. does anybody have a better idea than going back to
> > linking with $LD (maybe only in the 64bit case)?  Any suggestions?
> 
> Infer from -xarch=v9?

I don't understand what you are trying to say with this comment.
I have added `-xarch=v9' to the link line.  cc ignores it.

If I invoke ld directly, I have to add `-64', it does not understand
`-xarch=v9',..

> I really don't want to go back to linking with $LD

but you do not want to go back to using ld anyway (and rightly so!).
I do not know how to solve this.

> (and, what happens for C++ where you must link with $CC?).

The `CC' driver understands `-xarch=v9' and hands `-64' to ld; also it
does not fail when no objects are given.

Cheers,
Ralf