Re: libtool 1.5.8 on Solaris 8

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Carlos Fangmeier wrote:

> Hi, I checked and the system linker is the one that I currently use. Until 
> last week I thought it was better to use the system linker, but now I'm not 
> so sure. Could somebody tel me in which cases is better to use the gnu and 
> system linker. If the exception is one of this cases, maybe there are more of 
> such known isues, that could explain some other behaivor relatet to threads 
> and semaphore.
> If there are any test  that you will interested to be done, I will be glad to 
> cooperate.

When I said "system" linker, I meant using 'ld' directly (e.g. 
/usr/ccs/bin/ld) to perform a link rather than invoking the C++ 
compiler to do the link (which itself uses 'ld').  I did not mean 
Solaris 'ld' vs GNU 'ld'.

For Solaris, I recommend using the linker that comes with the system 
(/usr/ccs/bin/ld) since it knows all of the Solaris shared library 
nuances.  While I am sure that GNU 'ld' has continued to improve, the 
several times I have used it under Solaris, it has not performed 
nearly as well as Sun's linker when building/using shared libraries.

GNU 'ld' is smarter when linking C++ (for templates), but it is a 
portable tool and can not afford to specialize for an OS (except for 
Linux and maybe GNU Hurd).

Bob
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