From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: "Potharla, Rupesh" <Rupesh.Potharla@amd.com>
Cc: "George, Jini Susan" <JiniSusan.George@amd.com>,
"Parasuraman, Hariharan" <Hariharan.Parasuraman@amd.com>,
"Kumar N, Bhuvanendra" <Bhuvanendra.KumarN@amd.com>,
"Potharla, Rupesh via Binutils" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Need help buiding bfd shared library
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 08:46:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19be97cb-398b-8712-a267-713b1308247c@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR12MB4219788F8DEE5C893F81A435E79C9@DM6PR12MB4219.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
On 03.08.2022 20:59, Potharla, Rupesh wrote:
> [Public]
>
>> On 03.08.2022 08:49, Potharla, Rupesh wrote:
>>>> On 03.08.2022 08:09, Potharla, Rupesh via Binutils wrote:
>>>>> I am working on building bfd shared library for my code changes. I
>>>>> tried with
>>>> "configure --enable-shared=bfd" but BFD is creating static library
>>>> only even with -enable-shared option . Did I miss something ? Can
>>>> someone help me with the instructions to build bfd shared library?
>>>>
>>>> Did you try --enable-shared without "=bfd"? So far I wasn't aware of
>>>> that form as an option, and at least a quick inspection of the
>>>> configure script also doesn't suggest that form might exist. But I may be
>> entirely wrong ...
>>>
>>> I tried that option as well and tried with --enable-host-shared combination
>> also but no luck.
>>
>> You may want to inspect configure output then. Here in bfd/config.log I see
>>
>> configure:8674: checking whether the gcc -std=gnu99 linker
>> (/usr/lib/gcc/.../ld) supports shared libraries
>> configure:9745: result: yes
>> ...
>> configure:11365: checking if libtool supports shared libraries
>> configure:11367: result: yes
>> configure:11370: checking whether to build shared libraries
>> configure:11391: result: yes
>> configure:11394: checking whether to build static libraries
>> configure:11398: result: yes
>>
>> I would guess one of these is failing for you, at which point you'd want to
>> figure out why that is.
>
> None of the above is failing for me. I looked at the config.log file and tried the combination of different options none of them is working. In fact, I don't see a target for libbfd.so in the Makefile.
Look for a libbfd.la target. There's libtool involved here, and I think
that's the rule where the .so linking happens (at the same time as
the creation of libbfd.a). IOW I suppose all depends on the flags
passed to libtool ...
> configure:11283: checking whether stripping libraries is possible
> configure:11288: result: yes
> configure:11323: checking if libtool supports shared libraries
> configure:11325: result: yes
> configure:11328: checking whether to build shared libraries
> configure:11349: result: yes
> configure:11352: checking whether to build static libraries
> configure:11356: result: yes
> configure:8563: checking for dlfcn.h
> configure:8563: result: yes
>
> Just out of curiosity is the --enable-shared option really working for others?
Yes (on Linux; on Cygwin the answer would be "no").
Jan
> Am I missing something during the compilation?
>
> Regards,
> Rupesh P
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-04 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-03 6:09 Potharla, Rupesh
2022-08-03 6:43 ` Jan Beulich
2022-08-03 6:49 ` Potharla, Rupesh
2022-08-03 6:58 ` Jan Beulich
2022-08-03 18:59 ` Potharla, Rupesh
2022-08-04 6:46 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2022-08-04 9:45 ` Potharla, Rupesh
2022-08-04 9:47 ` Jan Beulich
2022-08-04 10:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-08-04 10:02 ` Errol Millios
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