Re: Consequence of using ld to link libraries on Solaris

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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On 13 Apr 2004, at 15:46, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Gary V.Vaughan wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Is there any technical reason why we need to use ld directly anymore?
>
> Since we mostly use the C++ compiler to do linking for the C++ tag, it
> seems that there is no good reason that a similar approach can't be
> used for C.  When linking using the linker, the library dependencies
> are more assured, but we loose all the platform smarts which are
> included for free with the compiler.

My thoughts exactly.  If no-one beats me to it, I'll try and look at 
this
next week.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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