Using libtool for linking

[Jason Curl]

Hello,

I've been testing my library now on various platforms and have come 
across something else that I didn't expect.

I have a system that supports shared libraries (Solaris 9). As part of 
some checks for 'getopt_long' I check if it exists in 'libiberty' if I 
can't find it in the standard system. It's there in libiberty. Now the 
problem occurs because there's only "libiberty.a" and no 
"libiberty.so.x.y.z" file.

Shouldn't AC_CHECK_LIB support shared/static libraries too? Or should 
libtool see that there's no shared library and statically link it 
somehow into my library that will become shared?

Aside all this, any ideas how to work around the problem besides 
"configure --disable-shared"? or knowing if the library is shared or not 
and then changing the behaviour maybe somehow?


/bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC    --mode=link gcc 
-DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\" -O2 -Wall  -version-info 0:0:0 -lnsl 
-lsocket
-o liblogger.la -rpath /usr/local/lib console.lo file.lo output.lo 
profile.lo  queue.lo serial.lo strfunc.lo tcpip.lo ipcproto.lo db
gmsg.lo  appframework.lo confopts.lo netif.lo ether_ntoa.lo getline.lo 
strnlen.lo timersub.lo timeradd.lo -liberty
gcc -shared -Wl,-h -Wl,liblogger.so.0 -o .libs/liblogger.so.0.0.0  
.libs/console.o .libs/file.o .libs/output.o .libs/profile.o .libs
/queue.o .libs/serial.o .libs/strfunc.o .libs/tcpip.o .libs/ipcproto.o 
.libs/dbgmsg.o .libs/appframework.o .libs/confopts.o .libs/ne
tif.o .libs/ether_ntoa.o .libs/getline.o .libs/strnlen.o 
.libs/timersub.o .libs/timeradd.o  -lnsl -lsocket -liberty -lc
Text relocation remains                         referenced
   against symbol                  offset      in file
optopt                              0x5f8      
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.0/../../../libiberty.a(getopt.o)
optopt                              0x600      
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.0/../../../libiberty.a(getopt.o)
optopt                              0x8d0      
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.0/../../../libiberty.a(getopt.o)
optopt                              0x8d8      
/usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.0/../../../libiberty.a(getopt.o)


Thanks,
Jason.