Re: linker error with new linker

["John Calcote" <jcalcote@novell.com>]

Daniel,
 
Thanks for the info - yes, I just had a brain-fart when I typed that
LDFLAGS comment - it took me half a compile to realize that it had to be
in CFLAGS, not LDFLAGS. 
 
However, the real question was: Does anyone know if there's a
"standard" way of dealing with the "linking shared libraries from static
libraries in autotools" issue? I know this is not the automake forum,
but this is a linker issue, so I thought you guys might have a clue. :)
 
John

>>> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> 7/12/2006 8:08 AM >>>
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:08:12PM -0600, John Calcote wrote:
> If this assumption is correct, then I believe it's really a good
thing
> - we SHOULD use all -fPIC flagged code in shared libraries. But I'm
not
> sure why it's become important in this later version of the linker.

It has never worked fine, esp. on x86_64.  It's just the linker wasn't
as rigorous about telling you about the problem previously.

> SuSE Enterprise Linux 10 Beta 8 - ld is newer (whatever SuSE's
> packaging along with gcc 4.1.0-5): generates the above error. 
> Here's my problem. Convenience libraries are good. They allow us to
> break large sets of files up into smaller sets of objects (static
> libraries) that we can deal with from one build directory to another.
I
> can reference a static library later in my build easily from another
> directory. This is fairly common practice, I believe. With the advent
of
> this new linker error, what can I do to maintain this model? I don't
> ship the static convenience libraries as part of my package. They
just
> make the build system a bit more modular. Is there a recommended
> approach to fixing this issue without reorganizing my entire
automake
> system? 
>  
> For now, I going to try to override the static library flags LDFLAGS
> for the convenience libraries and force the -fPIC flag on, which
should
> work fine since I don't expect consumers to use these convenience
> libraries. But if there's a better way, please let me know.

LDFLAGS has nothing to do with it - you don't link archives.  Compile
all code that is destined to end up in a shared library with -fPIC (in
CFLAGS).

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery