Re: [libgo, build] Use convenience libraries to create .gox files

[Rainer Orth]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

>> Ultimately, this turned out to be a libtool issue: it doesn't handle
>> Solaris 2/x86 at all, and Solaris 2/SPARC with GNU ld is incomplete in
>> that it doesn't account for the new *_sol2 emulations in gld 2.21.  All
>> this second-guessing the compiler suggests to me that it's a bad idea to
>> call the linker directly if gcc is in use.
>
> I know libtool bashing is hitting an easy target, but IIRC we still had
> user reports last year of (probably older) GCC installations where
> partial linking did not work when using the gcc driver, as opposed to
> using ld directly (note! for partial linking).

Ok, I see.  It still seems like a bad idea to reconstruct what the
compiler would do instead of letting it do its job.  This may be
difficult for vendor compilers, but GCC should have the necessary
switches to do without.

> Anyway, I'm applying your patch to upstream Libtool, as below.

Great, thanks.  Ian, could you check this into libgo, too?

Thanks.
        Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University