On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:51:22PM +0100, Gary V.Vaughan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
