Re: inherited_flags.at failure on HP-UX 10.20

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:53:06AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Albert Chin wrote on Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:40:21AM CEST:
> > HP-UX 10.20 uses ld rather than cc to create shared libraries. Because
> > of this, inherited_linker_flags in a *.la file is not added to the
> > link line.
> 
> Which of those flags are important for HP-UX 10.20 ld?

Which of what flags?

> > $inherited_linker_flags is added to $compiler_flags but
> > $compiler_flags is used only when cc is used to create a shared
> > library. From libtool.m4:
> 
> > So, should we modify the code in ltmain.sh to add
> > $inherited_linker_flags to $linker_flags:
> 
> > Looking at what is added to $new_inherited_linker_flags in ltmain.sh,
> > this looks safe.
> 
> Yes, but that is fragile.  At least, it would need a comment that
> whatever is added to new_inherited_linker_flags should also be
> understood by the linker iff $LD is used to link.

Yep, definitely fragile. A comment with a test should be sufficient.

> Then, do we need to pass any of those flags to $LD while doing partial
> linking (reload_cmds)?  Probably not, but I'm not sure.

I doubt it.

> It'd be good to have a test for this; the use of $LD in archive_cmds
> will likely provoke other failures; putting all of them in a test may
> help us preserve libtool functioning on HP-UX 10.20.  (I can try to
> write one once we've settled on the rest.)

Agreed.

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albert chin (address@hidden)