Re: Bug in Makefile.shlib

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 12:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Olivier PRENANT <ohp@pyrenet.fr> writes:
> > I think I figured why I can't buil plperl on unixware 711/OpenUnix 800.
> 
> > It seems Makefile.shlib has changed between 722 and 73 and -z text has
> > been added.
> 
> Not hardly.  The "-z text" option has been in there since at least 6.4.
> 6.4's Makefile.shlib has
> 
> ifeq ($(PORTNAME), unixware)
>   ...
>   LDFLAGS_SL            := -G -z text
>   ...
> endif
> 
> which was cribbed from even older shlib support in other files.  We used
> that up through 7.0 without any revisions.  In 7.1 Makefile.shlib was
> revised pretty heavily; 7.1 has a unixware section that is identical to
> current sources, in particular
> 
>   LINK.shared        += -Wl,-z,text -Wl,-h,$(soname)
> 
> So I think this code is pretty well tested and removing the -z option
> is more likely to break things than fix them.
> 
> What misbehavior are you seeing exactly?
see my post from ~2 weeks ago on -hackers with a 7.2.[12] problem. 

It flat doesn't work. 

I can dig the post up if you want. 


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