Re: ncurses-6.2-20200817: Error creating shared libraries on NetBSD 9.0

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 10:02:45PM +0000, Rajeev V. Pillai wrote:
>  On Friday, 21 August 2020, 01:18:54 GMT+5:30, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> 
> wrote: 
> 
> > NetBSD 9's ld manpage says this:
> >
> >     -shared
> >      -Bshareable
> >         Create a shared library.  This is currently only supported on ELF,
> >         XCOFF and SunOS platforms.  On SunOS, the linker will automatically
> >         create a shared library if the -e option is not used and there are
> >        undefined symbols in the link.
> 
> I don't think this is a linker issue. The NetBSD ld(1) accepts ``-shared'' 
> just fine and creates

sure - it's a problem with the compiler's linker script.

Take a look at how the packagers solve the problem of adapting the unmodified
gcc source to make a workable compiler.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/lang/gcc10/?only_with_tag=MAIN

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