I'm trying to port an existing library to use libtool (version 1.4.3) and have run into a problem with long argument lists on an rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.2.0 system.
The limiatation is with the AIX linker.
The original method used to build the library, built individual sections and progressively added the object files to a .a file with
ar -ru libfoobar.a <subdir>/*.o
for all required subdirectories. This was then converted to a shared object
library with:
ld -bE:shrsubs.exp -bI:shrsubs.imp -bM:SRE -bnoentry -o \ $(LIBRARY).so.$(VERSION) $(LIBRARY)-$(VERSION).a @FLIBS@ -lc
All fine for an rs6000.
The current situation is to build noinst_LTLIBS convenience libraries in each subdirectory.
Building on an ix86 system, the shared library is created by libtool from the
individual .libs/libfoobar1.al in the subdirectories, and the static library
is created by unpacking the individual .libs/libfoobar1.al and using ar -cru
on _all_ of the individual object files. This is fine on the ix86.
The rs6000 unpacks the individual library archives for _both_ static and shared and immediately hits the limit for the argument list for ld.
I suppose my first question is why can I not link all the .libs/libfoobar1.al
on the rs6000 _without_ unpacking the library archives, and my second is has
anyone else run across this before and come up with a solution?
Steve ---------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------
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