shared libraries on Solaris (and other SVR4 systems?)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Dimitri PAPADOPOULOS-ORFANOS wrote:
> the result is that the compiler is getting more and more perfect, but
> also more and more difficult to use in real world situations:
> [...]
> * undocumented but important options need hours of adjustment to
>   work such as `-fsquangle' (`-fsquangle' should really be handled
>   within `configure', modifying the top-level Makefile and adding
>   an option flag in the specs)

You can also use the following patch, but I agree that the current
situation is absolutely suboptimal.

With serious C++ code your are required to use squangling or gas on
Solaris, while on Digital Unix squangling is the only solution.

Index: decl2.c
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RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/egcs/gcc/cp/decl2.c,v
retrieving revision 1.134
diff -r1.134 decl2.c
436c436
< int flag_do_squangling;
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> int flag_do_squangling = 1;

Gerald
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