Re: [RFC] adding support for Linux FDPIC ELF

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Mike,

Thanks for the patch.  Please send further patches to the
libtool-patches list.

* Mike Frysinger wrote on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:42:30PM CET:
> i'm looking to add support for Linux on the Blackfin processor ... we use 
> FDPIC ELF as our format, so naturally it'd be nice if libtool didnt get in 
> our way when generating shared libraries :)

Well, for a new port it'd be nice to see how the testsuite fares on it
(see README for how to run it completely).  Besides a ChangeLog and NEWS
entry.  ;-)

> -linux* | k*bsd*-gnu)
> +linux* | uclinux* | k*bsd*-gnu)
[...]
> +    linux*)
> +      # Handle ports that support FDPIC ELF instead of plain ELF

Are you adding support for two separate ports here, or is this just an
inconsistency?

Cheers,
Ralf