ld issues
Steve Pribyl
steve@netfuel.com
Wed Jul 9 17:51:00 GMT 2003
When you guys are done....
What is the proper way to create a shared library from a set of .o files
in this case generated from *.java files.
I have a single here .o and .java to simplify.
Jeff Sturm wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>>Indeed. It fascinates me how often this question comes up --
>
>
> Yeah, me too.
>
>
>>why do
>>people want to invoke the linker directly instead of having gcj do the
>>job, when the latter obviously works and the former doesn't?
>
>
> Habit? Lots of legacy makefiles still use "ld -shared" (or variants like
> "ld -G"), I suspect. There may also be older non-gcc compiler drivers
> that don't understand "-shared" or have any equivalent.
>
> Of course that has nothing to do with gcj.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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Steve Pribyl
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Computer Infrastructure Practitioner
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