Re: Portland compiler support

[Markus Christen]

Jeff Squyres wrote:

> I have recently discovered that the Portland support that I sent 
> patches in for does not work for shared libraries (a LAM/MPI user told 
> me this -- not the Portland support group, which I find odd).
>
> HINT: PGI -- I'd really like to hear from you; I heard nothing from 
> you last time, which ended up in incorrect support for PGI compilers 
> in Libtool.  Let's not get this wrong again and cause confusion for 
> your customers...
>
> The issue is that when making shared libraries with --whole-archive, 
> the PGI linker needs one big argument 
> ("-Wl,--whole-archive,foo.a,bar.a,baz.a") as opposed to a 
> space-sparated list ("-Wl,--whole-archive foo.a bar.a baz.a").
>
> I'm trolling through the source code to figure out how to do this -- I 
> see that $convenience is built up as a space separated list.  I'm 
> trying to figure out the exact flow of things, but my first impression 
> is that it might be easiest to just parameterize on the delimiter (" " 
> or ",") in $convenience.  Am I off base here?
>
> (still trolling through the code; I am *not* a Libtool expert!  
> Comments / suggestions would be appreciated!)

hi

would that take care of the problem with templates and libraries (and 
convenience libraries)?
(confirmed by Ralf)
i would still be interested...

thread: portland compiler, convenience libraries and templates

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-12/msg00015.html

thanks
markus

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