> I discovered 'make languages' yesterday. The enclosed patch cleans up a
> lot of small nits I found in the build process. In a number of cases, the
> Makefiles were running perl scripts as
> ./script
> rather than as
> $(PERL) script
>
> A few other places called a plain 'perl' instead of $(PERL).
Thanks for cleaning these up. Applied.
> Second, Configure.pl was putting the wrong flags in to build a shared
> library. (Or, more precisely, it was apparently unconditionally using
> flags that work for GNU binutils.) I have replaced ld_shared by what I
> suspect is the appropriate perl5 Config variable. I left ld_shared_flags
> empty because I don't know what is supposed to go there, but the value
> Configure.pl used to use is definitely not right for Solaris's linker.
I applied the ld_shared_flags portion of this. When I went to get things
working on win32/cygwin, I didn't know what "-Wl,-soname,libparrot$(SO)"
was for, so I left it in. Taking it out as your patch had, seems to work
fine.
However, I did not apply the following:
> - ld_shared => '-shared',
> + ld_shared => $Config{lddlflags},
With that bit applied, I get the following error during "make shared"
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/p/parrot-manfree/parrot/classes'
gcc -s -L/usr/local/lib -s -L/usr/local/lib -o blib/lib/libparrot.so
exceptions.o ...(lots of .o files)... chartypes/usascii.o -lcrypt
/usr/lib/libcygwin.a(libcmain.o)(.text+0x6a): undefined reference to `WinMain@16'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Where
LD_SHARED = -shared -L/usr/local/lib
It seems that cygwin GCC does not like the -s, and would much rather
prefer -shared to work properly. The Makefile was built using cygwin perl
(that's why its using cygwin GCC), so perhaps cygwin perl's
$Config{lddlflags} is incorrect? Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Thanks,
Mike Lambert
