On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Leon Brocard wrote: > Cool, I've done the past two patches and it compiles but then fails to > compile parrot shared: > > cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -flat_namespace -o blib/lib/libparrot.so exceptions.o >global_setup.o interpreter.o parrot.o register.o core_ops.o core_ops_prederef.o >memory.o packfile.o stacks.o string.o sub.o encoding.o chartype.o runops_cores.o >trace.o pmc.o key.o hash.o core_pmcs.o platform.o jit.o jit_cpu.o resources.o rx.o >rxstacks.o intlist.o embed.o warnings.o misc.o core_ops_cg.o packout.obyteorder.o >debug.o smallobject.o headers.o dod.o method_util.o io/io.o io/io_buf.o io/io_unix.o >io/io_win32.o io/io_stdio.o classes/array.o classes/boolean.o classes/continuation.o >classes/coroutine.o classes/csub.o classes/default.o classes/intlist.o >classes/intqueue.o classes/key.o classes/multiarray.o classes/perlarray.o >classes/perlhash.o classes/perlint.o classes/perlnum.o classes/perlstring.o >classes/perlundef.o classes/pointer.o classes/sub.o encodings/singlebyte.o >encodings/utf8.o encodings/utf16.o encodings/utf32.o chartypes/unicode.o >chartypes/usascii.o -lm > cc: unrecognized option `-shared'
Yup, That's a long-standing bug. Here, again, is the correct fix for it. This (and the appropriate follow-up correction to the cygwin hints file that's irrelevant for you) is available as [perl #16937] [PATCH] Configure still using wrong shared library flags. diff -r -u parrot-orig/config/init/data.pl parrot-andy/config/init/data.pl --- parrot-orig/config/init/data.pl Thu Aug 29 16:56:29 2002 +++ parrot-andy/config/init/data.pl Mon Sep 2 12:41:02 2002 @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ ld_out => '-o ', # ld output file ld_debug => '', # include debug info in executable - ld_shared => '-shared', + ld_shared => $Config{lddlflags}, ld_shared_flags=> '', # What is this, exactly? For GNU ld, it was # '-Wl,-soname,libparrot$(SO)' -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042