Re: [open-cobol-list] New Port

[Brian Tiffin]

On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:52:53 -0500, Tom Chandler <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> Just a FYI for the list.  I have been able to port open-cobol-1.0 over
> to run under the Minix3 OS.

Nice.

> Not very many changes in the source.  One problem is the test
> programs.  It appears they only compile in a "shared" mode.
> I need to compile and test them in a "static" mode.

I take it you won't mind hacking about?  The tests/Makefile has

COBC_LIBS =
COB_BIGENDIAN = no
COB_CC = gcc
COB_CFLAGS = -I/usr/local/include
COB_CONFIG_DIR = ${prefix}/share/open-cobol/config
COB_COPY_DIR = ${prefix}/share/open-cobol/copy
COB_EXPORT_DYN = -Wl,--export-dynamic
COB_FIX_LIB = -Wl,--export-dynamic
COB_HAS_INLINE =
COB_LDFLAGS =
COB_LIBRARY_PATH = ${exec_prefix}/lib/open-cobol
COB_LIBS = -L${exec_prefix}/lib -lcob -lm -lgmp -lncurses -ldb -ldl
COB_MODULE_EXT = so
COB_PIC_FLAGS = -fPIC -DPIC
COB_SHARED_OPT = -shared

in it.  Those bottom two look like a promising place to start.  If the 1.0  
sources (I'll admit to having not really touched those ... ever) are  
similar, there should be a libcob/.libs hidden libtool directory that is  
created during make.  In there there should be a static archive of the  
runtime (I've never tried this) which you might be able to trick the  
aforementioned Makefile to use.  With some tracking down of COB_PIC_FLAGS,  
COB_SHARED_OPT and some "not safe for work" tweaks to the linkage and the  
wonky environment vars that are setup to test not-yet-installed compilers,  
static testing might work.

> Any ideas would be appreciated.

They may not be wise or good ideas and may cause chasing of wild geese.  ;)

> Thank You
> Tom C

Cheers,
Brian
P.S. I guess I assumed you are talking about  make check  and not the  
NIST85 suite.  The tests/cobol85 suite could be a different matter.