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Re: PATCH: Enable PIC for mips*-*-*
On Nov 17, 2001, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:46:13AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Nov 17, 2001, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
>>
>> > That is not what I want. My patch applies ALL Linux. No Linux should
>> > use pass_all at all.
>>
>> Then why do you duplicate the features of pass_all in the file_magic
>> branch?
> I don't think so. Before my patch, --enable-shared will result in
> libiberty/pic/libiberty.a used for linking executables. I want
> libiberty/libiberty.a for that.
Then build a libtool library out of libiberty, or move
libiberty/libiberty.a in front of libiberty/pic/libiberty.a in the
library list.
>> >> But it won't build correctly with --enable-shared on other platforms
>> >> that don't accept PDC in shared libraries.
>>
>> > That is not my problem :-).
>>
>> After your patch, binutils won't build correctly on glibc-2.1-based
>> ARM/Linux. Perhaps this is your problem, after all?
> My libtool.m4 change should have no change for ARM/Linux. The only
> change is ltmain.sh, which allows linking against an archive when
> building a shared library.
That's exactly what breaks ARM/Linux if the archive contains PDC.
> I don't think it should be a problem. I am very curious why
> ARM/Linux fails.
It was a bug in glibc, long fixed, but libtool still supports that
buggy version, on the same grouns that it supports far older OSs.
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