Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Error cross-compiling to Android as shared library

[Bruno Haible]

Frederik Seiffert wrote:
> Changing LD to Android’s "ld" instead of clang allowed me to build libiconv 
> as a shared library. clang worked fine as linker for everything else I’ve 
> been building (I think it just forwards to ld), so I’m not sure why this 
> fixes the issue here – maybe a bug in libtool?

Thanks for telling us the solution.

clang and ld have different command-line invocation conventions. For example,
you can call
   ld -o foo.so -rpath /cross/lib object.o
whereas the calling convention for clang (as well as gcc) is
   $CC -o foo.so -Wl,-rpath,/cross/lib object.o

libtool needs to pass specific linker options when creating a shared library.

I think this explains it.

Bruno