Re: [PATCH] fix for Darwin shared library support

[Peter O'Gorman]

Joe Orton wrote:

> Christian Schaffner tracked down a bug where libtool HEAD fails
> to detect shared library support in the linker on Darwin.
>
> This occurs in a configure script using AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS([]), because
> AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_LD_SHLIBS is using $GXX not $GCC, but $GXX is not set.
> The fix Christian wrote is below.  

Ah! That makes more sense. When Christian asked me what was going on, I 
assumed someone had been editing the libtool script by hand :)


> Index: m4/libtool.m4
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/m4/libtool.m4,v
> retrieving revision 1.8
> diff -u -r1.8 libtool.m4
> --- m4/libtool.m4       21 Oct 2003 15:03:56 -0000      1.8
> +++ m4/libtool.m4       28 Oct 2003 16:46:41 -0000
> @@ -5482,7 +5482,7 @@
>        ;;
>  
>      darwin* | rhapsody*)
> -    if test "$GXX" = yes ; then
> +    if test "$GCC" = yes ; then
>        _LT_AC_TAGVAR(archive_cmds_need_lc, $1)=no
>        case "$host_os" in
>        rhapsody* | darwin1.[[012]])

This is probably correct, but I'll look into it a little more now that I 
know what is going on.

Thanks,
Peter
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