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To: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>
From: "Andrea 'fwyzard' Bocci" <fwyzard@inwind.it>
Subject: Re: [3.2/3.3/HEAD] shared libobjc not built
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At 16.47 01/01/2003 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
>gcc configured without explicit --enabled-shared builds shared
>libraries for libstdc++, libgcj, etc, but not for libobjc (i386-linux)
>Is this intended? libobjc's configure sets the default to disabled.

 From <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html>:
>--enable-shared[=package[,...]]
>Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are supported on 
>the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier, shared libraries are 
>enabled by default on all platforms that support shared libraries, except 
>for libobjc which is built as a static library only by default.
>If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared libraries only 
>for the listed packages. For other packages, only static libraries will be 
>built. Package names currently recognized in the GCC tree are libgcc (also 
>known as gcc), libstdc++ (not libstdc++-v3), libffi, zlib, boehm-gc and 
>libjava. Note that libobjc does not recognize itself by any name, so, if 
>you list package names in --enable-shared, you will only get static 
>Objective-C libraries. libf2c and libiberty do not support shared 
>libraries at all.
So, yes, I think it's intended, but I don't know why.

fwyzard