Re: Failure building .so on HP-UX 11.00 + cc

[Daniel Richard G.]

On Sat, 2006 Jun 03 03:24:21 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> Wow, thanks for reporting this.  So the question is at which point can
> we be sure that using $CC for link works reliably on HP-UX?

Assuming it's even safe to rely entirely on the OS version... I know very 
little about software version constraints on HP-UX, but it's conceivable 
that you could have an up-to-date base system with an older compiler that 
doesn't understand "-b". (Maybe if you installed system updates 
selectively, etc.)

I suppose the safest approach would be an explicit check ("checking whether 
cc accepts -b..."), but that would be a fairly big change to how things are 
done now.


--Daniel


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