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Re: Approval: can I commit this please?
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:41:24AM -0700, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Maybe we should instead define both main and _main, and use $CC to do
> the linking?
Host CC? It may use completely different linker than the one which will be
used by the newly built compiler.
Jakub