Re: shared library creation versus custom gcc specs file

[Peter O'Gorman]

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Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
| On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Chris McCraw wrote:
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|> this works great, except when creating shared libraries with libtool.
|> for some reason, probably a good one but in this case ill-fated, when
|> libtool links a shared a library, it ignores my $CFLAGS, wherein i point
|> gcc to a custom specs file which contains my -R / -L directives.  i
|> remedy
|> the situation by hacking the libtool script to include
|> "-specs /path/to/my/specsfile" after both occurrences of "-shared", which
|> works fine.
|
|
| Linker options are supposed to be passed via LDFLAGS rather than
| CFLAGS.  I don't believe that libtool knows anything about a -specs
| option.  It does know about -L and -R options passed on the libtool
| command line.  It seems likely that -Wl,-specs,/path/to/my/specsfile
| will work.
|

Alternatively, you could do CC="gcc -specs /path/to/file" before configuring.

Peter
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