Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 13:53 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Can we state that libtool is highly not recommended and usually builds worse
>> libraries than other systems?
>
> Hmm... define 'worse libraries'.
It's insistence on overriding linker flags recommended by our linker
experts has often annoyed me (so much that I use LD_OPTIONS to pass
flags to ld behind libtool's back, so it can't overwrite them).
>> Has this version of libtool at least fixed the "impossible to build a 64-bit
>> library correctly on Solaris" bugs? (Would have to dig into my old Xorg
>> builds to see if I could find all the ways I had to work around libtool's
>> damage, but as I recall it was forcing use of the -64 flag, assuming you
>> linked shared libaries with ld, not cc.)
>
> Do you have more details of this bug?
This code it inserts into configure scripts to force linking 64-bit
libraries with the -64 flag, which in turn forces use of ld instead
of cc/CC to link, since cc/CC don't support -64:
sparc*-*solaris*)
# Find out which ABI we are using.
echo 'int i;' > conftest.$ac_ext
if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_compile\"") >&5
(eval $ac_compile) 2>&5
ac_status=$?
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
(exit $ac_status); }; then
case `/usr/bin/file conftest.o` in
*64-bit*)
case $lt_cv_prog_gnu_ld in
yes*) LD="${LD-ld} -m elf64_sparc" ;;
*) LD="${LD-ld} -64" ;;
esac
;;
esac
fi
rm -rf conftest*
;;
It's in /opt/jdsbld/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 on a system with
JDS CBE 1.5.1 installed - haven't checked in 1.6.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
