On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> Anyone with a more profound gcc knowledge has an opinion on this?
>
> Forwarded by "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ----------------------- Original Message -----------------------
> From: Art Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:53:56 -0600
> Subject: Replacing '-rdynamic' in Configure script
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>
> I'm running Perl on Linux, and have wondered why the 'Configure' script
> suggests using '-rdynamic' for linking the Perl binary. The GCC
> documentation does not mention '-rdynamic', and after hunting around a bit
> for some info on it I found that it appears in the gcc specs file, and is
> apparently another way to specify '--export-dynamic'. So, instead of using
> this undocumented (in my GCC-3.5 CVS code) flag, replace it with a call to
> the linker to use '--export-dynamic'.
This change (-Wl,-E) is probably fine -- I'm pretty sure that's what we're
doing elsewhere that uses GNU ld. The use of the -rdynamic is very old --
it goes back at least to perl5.001m, nearly 10 years ago -- and is there
simply because it was what worked for whoever suggested it all those years
ago.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
