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Re: stopping ./configure from choking on use of ccc/cxx (LONG)

Subject: Re: stopping ./configure from choking on use of ccc/cxx (LONG)
From: Adam C Powell IV (hazelsct@mit.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 4 05:43:28 2001


Alan Young wrote:

> I think I've pinned down what is causing shared libraries to be turned off.
> [snip]
> I'd like to propose that we add a case to ltconfig that will check for
> Compaq C (ccc). Unfortunately, this will mean everyone will need to
> update their libtools and people will have to update packages with the
> new libtool until the maintainers catch up, but I think this will solve
> the problem. In the above case, I suggest this additional code be
> added before the default case so the code looks like:
>
> linux-gnu)
> # Should really test the cpu type here too, but for now we'll assume
> # that ccc is only on the Alpha platform. If a non Alpha compiler
> # called ccc comes along, well, then, this will need to be fixed.
> case "$compiler" in
> ccc)
> # according to the ccc manpage -shared is the default
> # do we need -call_shared too?
> pic_flag='-shared'
> can_build_shared=yes

Looks good to me. Can you produce a patch against libtool so we can easily
build/test it with this feature?

Thank you very much for doing this!

-Adam P.

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