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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 01:09:24AM +0000, Rajeev V. Pillai wrote:
>  On Friday, 21 August 2020, 05:27:51 GMT+5:30, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> > sure - it's a problem with the compiler's linker script.
> 
> gcc-7.5.0 NetBSD 9.0_STABLE std compiler

this is the only relevant one (something to verify when I've time to
compile that package).

> clang-8.0.1 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE std compiler
> gcc-8.3.0 Ubuntu 19.04 std compiler
> gcc-10.2.0 on Ubuntu 19.04 (compiled from source by me)
> clang-10.0.1 on Ubuntu 19.04 (binary release from LLVM's github page)

these are irrelevant.
 
> None of them honour ``-Wl,-shared''. All need ``-shared''.
> 
>  I would file this behaviour as a bug against the compilers, but for the fact

that's the proper place to start.

>  that I've always used ``-shared'' to create shared libraries (and 
> ``-Wl,-soname''
>  to set DT_SONAME), and never used ``-Wl,-shared''; though it does _feel_ like
> ``-Wl,-shared'' should be passed on like ``-Wl,-soname'' is.
> 
> Certainly this exception should be made explicit in the compiler man-pages.

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