Re: [Bug-readline] Build readline with libtool?

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/15/14, 2:51 PM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> 
> On 04/15/14 19:59, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 4/15/14, 1:30 PM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
>>
>>>> Is there some existing system for which this (unsupported) is an actual
>>>> problem?
>>>
>>> It's not the 'unsupported' part. For AIX I've found a non-trivial, but still
>>> manpage-following way to create shared libraries with full 'SONAME' support.
>>> It was fairly "easy" to implement this way within libtool, because of its
>>> already existing many-platforms/many-variants support "framework".
>>> What I'm tired of is reinventing the wheel for each home-brewed 
>>> many-platform
>>> sharedlib support again and again. Instead, I'd love to see anyone to at 
>>> least
>>> /allow/ outsourcing the shared library creation to libtool.
>>
>> You've done the work; I'd like to see you share it.  That way I can
>> incorporate it into the bash/readline shared object creation script.
>> Even the commands to use to create and install shared libraries would
>> be useful.  I don't have or use AIX, so I rely on those who do.
> 
> Well, here's the most recent description of that non-trivial way:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-02/msg00099.html

Yeah, that's  pretty ugly.  I'm sure someone at IBM thought it was a good
idea at the time.

> This is the patch I've used for readline already using some helper scripts:
> http://prefix.gentooexperimental.org/hg/prefix-tree/file/db3e43bd681a/sys-libs/readline/files/readline-6.2-aixso.patch
> 
> And here's the wrapper scripts, installed as CHOST-mkexpfile, and ld used by 
> $CC:
> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-devel/native-cctools/files/aix-2/
> 
> The problem with these scripts right now is the additional external dependency
> during bootstrap, which I can drop with a package-private libtool script, as 
> in:
> http://prefix.gentooexperimental.org/hg/prefix-tree/file/db3e43bd681a/sys-libs/readline/readline-6.2_p1-r1.ebuild#l82
> 
> Still I doubt you really want to integrate these scripts into readline...

Well, it's pretty easy to change the shobj-conf script to use a version of
`mkexpfile' if one is found in $PATH and change the various output
variables accordingly.  One could assume that the existence of mkexpfile
implied the existence of your ld wrapper script, or you could simply use
${CC} as your patch does.

How widespread is mkexpfile at this point?  Is this something I can
reasonably expect to improve things for a significant number of people?

Chet
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