Please please please forget about that allextract nonsense. You will*never*
get it portable to all desired platforms. Just take the lib*.a and relink it
explicitly:
mkdir tmp; cd tmp; ar x ../libcrypto.a; ld -r -o ../libcrypto.o *.o
ld -G -o libcrypto.so libcrypto.o -l<whatever>
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun
http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc
Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard
> Levitte - VMS
> Whacker
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:10 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CVS] OpenSSL: openssl Makefile.org
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>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 16 Dec
> 2002 19:54:08 +0100, Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> appro> Richard, you win but for another reason:-) WorkShop C
> (as well as other
> appro> vendor compiler drivers) does understand -Wl, *but*
> some of thier
> appro> (Sun's) compiler drivers (well, one of those I have)
> collect all -Wl
> appro> options in the beginning of ld command line so that ld
> is invoked as "ld
> appro> -z allextract -z defaultextract ... libcrypto.a ...",
> while idea is
> appro> basically "ld ... -z allextract libcrypto.a -z
> defaultextract ..." Why,
> appro> oh why? A.
>
> Eh god... So basically, we not only need to detect if GNU ld is used,
> but that it's really GNU cc as well? What happens if the compiler
> isn't GNU but ld is?
>
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