Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Albert Chin wrote:

> When linking a C program and using the Sun C compiler, we use the Sun
> linker to create a shared libraries. The problem with this is if -mt
> is passed to the Sun C compiler _without_ -lpthread/-lthread. From
> cc(1):
>      -mt  Passes D_REENTRANT to preprocessor. Appends -lthread
>           after all other user-specified libraries on the command
>           line.  If you are doing your own multithread coding,
>           you must use this option in the compile and link steps.
>           To obtain faster execution, this option requires a mul-
>           tiprocessor system. On a single-processor system, the
>           resulting executable usually runs more slowly with this
>           option.
>
> So, to accommodate this, how about we use cc to create shared
> libraries on Solaris?

This problem is not specific to Solaris.  The same problem occurs on
Digital Unix, or any other OS where libtool doesn't currently use the
C compiler to link.

Bob
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