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Re: Approval: can I commit this please?
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Kean Johnston <jkj at sco dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:46:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: Approval: can I commit this please?
- References: <00e001c306c6$679f24c0$03419384@shrike> <20030421191727.GE23146@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:17:27PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 03:52:50PM -0700, Kean Johnston wrote:
> > if $gcc_cv_as -o conftest1.o conftest1.s > /dev/null 2>&1 \
> > && $gcc_cv_as -o conftest2.o conftest2.s > /dev/null 2>&1 \
> > && $gcc_cv_as -o conftest3.o conftest3.s > /dev/null 2>&1 \
> > - && $gcc_cv_ld -shared -o conftest1.so conftest1.o \
> > + && $gcc_cv_ld $ldshared -o conftest1.so conftest1.o \
>
> Jakub, is there any particular reason why we needed -shared
> here at all?
I don't see any but this one: if -shared is dropped, there needs to be
_start symbol defined or whatever the linker wants to use as entry point,
so we avoid linker warning (or whatever other linkers do in that case).
Jakub