From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: A config patch Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:44:42 -0000 Message-ID: <199708271526.LAA03697@subrogation.cygnus.com> In-reply-to: A config patch X-SW-Source: 1997-08/0617.html Message-ID: <19970827164442.tTsSb5SWxPl6PWcynXcKTz-oB68FN9boW_sgvl9k-oo@z> In message you write: > > so that [ -z "$PICFLAG" ] succeeds. But you would need to use > > libtool to think about getting OSF/1 shared libraries built -- > > gcc -shared certainly doesn't work. > > > > That may be true. But at least you can make libstdc++.so for > alpha/ELF. The thing you need to explain is _why_ this particular patch enables you to build a shared libstdc++. I don't have the time to grope around half a dozen makefiles and configure fragments to figure this out. You've obviously done so, so please save everyone some time by providing this information. And you also need to tell us why/how this library is correct if "gcc -shared" doesn't do the right thing on the alpha target. (IMHO) Building a broken libstdc++.so is worse than not building it at all. Jeff