X-Authentication-Warning: acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de: broeker owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:34:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker X-Sender: broeker AT acp3bf To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com cc: Richard Dawe Subject: Re: Package of libtool? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote: > From my attempts at building cvs gettext (which now uses 1.4) there should > be no problem, save one. ltconfig uses -fPIC as compiler option to > produce PIC code. Hm... but doesn't it only do that if building of *shared* libraries is active? Since those are a non-issue for DJGPP anyway, can't we just disable that whole branch of it once and for all, for a DJGPP port (effictively forcing the --disable-shared option for all DJGPP builds)? At least to me, that seems like the obvious thing to do. > An obvious fix is to simply edit ltconfig to not use this option; I've > also mailed a report to Mark & Andris, but I'm not sure if this is something > that should be handled in binutils (ie add support to bfd) or gcc (ie > disallow -fPIC for a djgpp host). That would be another possibility, indeed. We don't need PIC, so there wouldn't be any harm done by turning it off completely already at the GCC stage. But even so, it'd be a waste of CPU time and porting effort to try and support the shared-library building parts of libtool in DJGPP. > Otherwise, libtool 1.4 seems to work very well (at least with autoconf 2.50 > and a cvs automake). Which currently is a big stumbling block, IMHO. It's somewhat silly for a released version of one tool to require a (hacked) CVS-only version of some other to work properly. gnu.utils.bug is currently discussing this. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.