From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Roxborough To: punt Cc: sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Building libraries Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:44:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B000B40.B87CD781@redhat.com> References: <0105121554460H.01467@dev1> X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00153.html punt wrote: > > As anyone gotten 5.0 to successfully build a library? I noticed the link > option between library and executable is grayed, but still selectable. When I > select library, and do a build, it bombs at the link process (it is not > asking gcc or the librarian to create the lib file). The library building bits need to be revisited. I'm not sure what problem you are having, but it may be related to flag order problems with the linker flags. When I wrote the backend build system I didn't pay attention to flag ordering and it seems "ar" needs flags in a certain order. This probably won't get fixed until a build engine rewrite. Ian.