Re: old solaris problem

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:

> In the GNU Serveez configure.ac, i see:
>
>  dnl
>  dnl Check if libtool copes with SunOS/Solaris.  GNU libtool 1.4.2 and less
>  dnl fail to create self-contained shared libraries.  This is due to the gcc
>  dnl - native linker combination.  The below macro adds the -liberty path
>  dnl and -lgcc to the linker line if necessary.
>  dnl
>  SVZ_LIBTOOL_SOLARIS

I recommend eliminating use of this macro.  Whatever purpose it was 
intending to solve surely no longer exists.

I use Solaris for development and have never needed anything similar 
to what this macro is doing.  It seems likely that the developer of 
the macro was solving some issue with his own compiler installation.

Libtool 1.4.2 was released in 2002.  That is eons in libtool time.

Bob
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