From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu>
Cc: java-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] link libgcj directly to libiconv to resolve symbols
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D6F38B.4000205@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130705161058.GA15079@bromo.med.uc.edu>
On 07/05/2013 05:10 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Currently the build of the libgcj shared library in libjava omits a direct linkage against the
> libiconv shared library to resolve the undefined _libiconv, _libiconv_close and _libiconv_open
> symbols in libgcj. My understanding of shared library best practices is that shared libraries
> should always be linked directly to the those shared libraries required to resolve their undefined
> symbols rather than postponing this linkage until when the shared library is used (as is currently
> done in libjava/libgcj.spec.in).
> The attached patch achieves this by removing the @LIBMATHSPEC@ from *lib: in libjava/libgcj.spec.in
> and moving it as $(LDLIBICONV) onto libgcj_la_LDFLAGS in libjava/Makefile.am and libjava/Makefile.in.
> Bootstrap and regression tested on x86_64-apple-darwin12 for gcc trunk and gcc-4_8-branch.
> Okay for gcc trunk and gcc-4_8-branch?
No. Some systems have iconv in libc, some have it in libiconv.
Andrew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-05 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-05 16:11 Jack Howarth
2013-07-05 16:25 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2013-07-06 3:58 ` Jack Howarth
2013-07-06 6:46 ` Andrew Haley
2013-07-06 11:19 ` Jack Howarth
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