Re: Patch for Portland compiler support

[Jeff Squyres]

On Nov 18, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> > I did [at least] one questionable thing: in the Linux linker
> > section, I had to check for pgf77 or pgf90, because, contrary to the 
> > PG
> > documentation, pgf77 and pgf90 need an additional "-fpic" in their
> > linker command to create a shared library properly.
>
> Is this necessary for just a regular shared library or for a shared
> module (that can be loaded with dlopen)?  If the former, then I think
> your patch is ok.

It seems to be necessary even for normal shared libraries -- without 
it, I get an error from the Portland linker.

> Glancing at libtool.m4, there are a number of cases where it's
> necessary, maybe we should put them in a separate variable, like
> pic_link_flag or so.  That'll only be for libtool HEAD, though.

Sounds reasonable.

> > Here's the revised patch (including some fixes from this morning; 
> > based
> > on tests, not the PG documentation ;-) ):
>
> Note that branch-2-0 tests are somewhat more challenging, esp. on the
> Fortran front.  I might want to wait with applying this patch until you
> get to those (in case you find out more necessary stuff there).
> Other than that, I'll take the patch.

That sounds like a reasonable plan.  Let me port this over to the CVS 
HEAD and see if it helps refine the 1.5 patch.  Today's pretty hosed 
for me; I can probably get to this tomorrow or over the weekend.

Many thanks.

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