Approval: can I commit this please?

[Jakub Jelinek]

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