Re: Libtool does not generate shared libraries when cross compiling x86/64 -> sparc64 using fujitsu compiler

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Harald Servat wrote:
> I'm unsure on how to interpret the libtool related information because it is 
> very simplistic
>
> configure:11699: checking if libtool supports shared libraries
> configure:11701: result: no
>
> however, at some point earlier, the following test might be related
>
> configure:8998: checking whether the fccpx linker (sparc64-linux-ld -m 
> elf64_sparc) supports shared libraries
> configure:10069: result: no
>
> Can we provide some additional info or run additional tests to improve 
> libtool on this system?

The generated config.log file contains detail information regarding 
the tests performed and error messages produced.  Looking there is the 
next step.

The '-print-search-dirs' error message is because libtool attempted to 
treat the compiler like GCC and obtain its default linker search path.

It is unfortunate if Fujitsu does not care to contribute.  If that is 
indeed true, then that would be their loss since a large portion of 
free software packages use Autotools (including libtool) and these 
packages won't compile as effectively if the target is not supported. 
Fujitsu's system would be barren of commonly available software. 
Fujitsu is in the best position to support their own compiler and 
platform.

Bob
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