[3664] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #1261] Creation of shared libraries ignore --with-ldopts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman via RT)
Thu Nov 21 10:03:09 2002
Message-Id: <rt-1261-3729.2.13942253943017@krbdev.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <rt-1261@krbdev.mit.edu>
From: "Sam Hartman via RT" <rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu>
Reply-To: rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu
To: krb5-prs@mit.edu
Errors-To: krb5-bugs-admin@mit.edu
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:02:45 -0500 (EST)
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Yu via RT <rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu> writes:
>>>>> "Ezra" == Ezra Peisach via RT <rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu> writes:
Ezra> a) config/lib.in: Change the invocation of LDCOMBINE in the
Ezra> creation of the library to include $(LDFLAGS)
Ezra> This would make the --ldopts a global change for all
Ezra> architectures.
Tom> One possible problem with this is that LDFLAGS is meant to be
Tom> used during program link time. It is therefore intended to
Tom> be suitable for passing to the compiler driver. Different
Tom> architectures vary as to whether they use ld or $(CC) to
Tom> build shared libraries, and we'd have to account for the
Tom> possibility that LDFLAGS that are suitable for the compiler
Tom> driver might not be suitable for ld.
I contend it is almost always wrong to use ld to build shared libraries:
* cc may link against aditional libraries that are required (see
hppa/linux--using ld is guaranteed to fail)
* cc may need to include additional flags that may change over time.
_______________________________________________
krb5-bugs mailing list
krb5-bugs@mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/krb5-bugs
