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Re: [fortran, build] Fix libquadmath build on Solaris 2
Hi Ralf,
> * Rainer Orth wrote on Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:07:37PM CET:
>> I still mean to unify the different diverging copies of that stuff (and
>> the two different families, one in libstdc++-v3 and libgomp, the other
>> in libgfortran, libssp, libjava and now libquadmath) and put them in a
>> single place to have a template for adding symbol versioning support to
>> libffi and libobjc, but that's certainly not stage3 stuff.
>
> I know we went completely silent at the time (I tried to, but simply
> never found the time to look into this; sorry), but we *could*
> reconsider moving such functionality to Libtool eventually, you know.
it's just as much my fault: when you followed up to my suggestion to do
this, I didn't have the time to respond. But I still think this is the
right course going forward, so libraries/projects outsite of GCC can
benefit from this. It seems to me, though, that it will have to be both
Automake and Libtool, but a detailed design will have to wait.
> Of course I cannot expect you to agree nor do this work, and I still
> cannot promise a lot of time, but I think it might be the right idea
> conceptually.
Fully agreed. It seems to me that the first step has to be to
generalize what is currently in GCC, try it on additional libraries (I
still plan to do libffi and libobjc at some point), and if this works
out, thing about moving it to Automake/Libtool instead.
This is certainly 4.7 material, though. I hope to get around to this in
that timeframe, provided libobjc stabilizes enough by than to make it
worthwhile.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University