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Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris
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Albert Chin |
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Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:55:45 -0500 |
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:51:22PM +0100, Gary V.Vaughan wrote:
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> On 13 Apr 2004, at 15:46, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> >On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Gary V.Vaughan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>So, to accommodate this, how about we use cc to create shared
> >>>>libraries on Solaris?
> >>>
> >>>This problem is not specific to Solaris. The same problem occurs on
> >>>Digital Unix, or any other OS where libtool doesn't currently use the
> >>>C compiler to link.
> >>
> >>Is there any technical reason why we need to use ld directly anymore?
> >
> >Since we mostly use the C++ compiler to do linking for the C++ tag, it
> >seems that there is no good reason that a similar approach can't be
> >used for C. When linking using the linker, the library dependencies
> >are more assured, but we loose all the platform smarts which are
> >included for free with the compiler.
>
> My thoughts exactly. If no-one beats me to it, I'll try and look at
> this next week.
I already have it done for Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, and IRIX. My
patch is for the 1.5 branch. I'll forward-port to the 1.6 branch and
post the patch in a few days when I have time.
--
albert chin (address@hidden)
- Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris, Albert Chin, 2004/04/12
- Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/04/12
- Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris, Gary V . Vaughan, 2004/04/13
- Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/04/13
- Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris, Gary V . Vaughan, 2004/04/13
- Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris,
Albert Chin <=
- Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris, Gary V . Vaughan, 2004/04/13
- Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris, Albert Chin, 2004/04/13
- Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris, Gary V . Vaughan, 2004/04/14