Re: problem linking

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Michail Vidiassov wrote:

> Dear Thomas,
>
> whaen I was trying to compile development version of ncurses (without 
> libtool),
> the folowing problem surfaced

I split-out tack in one of the patches earlier this year; there is a 
separate tack tarball on my ftp area which is supposed to work.  The
change you're describing is one of the 2-3 modifications made at/after
the time it was split-out.

> /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 ../obj_s/ansi.o ../obj_s/charset.o 
> ../obj_s/color.o
> ../obj_s/control.o ../obj_s/crum.o ../obj_s/edit.o ../obj_s/fun.o 
> ../obj_s/init.o ../obj_s/menu.o
> ../obj_s/modes.o ../obj_s/output.o ../obj_s/pad.o ../obj_s/scan.o 
> ../obj_s/sync.o ../obj_s/sysdep.o
> .../obj_s/tack.o -L../lib -lncursesw -L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-search_paths_first 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -I../tack -I. -I. -I../include -I/opt/local/include -U_XOPEN_SOURCE 
> -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -DSIGWINCH=28
> -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DNDEBUG -I/opt/local/include -O2  --param 
> max-inline-insns-single=1200
> -no-cpp-precomp -dynamic  -o tack
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 is input for the dynamic link editor,
> is not relocatable by the static link editor again
>
> as you can see, gcc is mentioned twice in the beginning of the line.
> is is caused by the following line in tack/Makefile.in :
> LINK           = @LINK_PROGS@ $(LIBTOOL_LINK) $(CC)
>
> That line was there at 5.6, but it did not bite, since LIBTOOL_LINK was set 
> to nothing.
> But now, in the development version, LIB_LINK, and thus LIBTOOL_LINK, is set 
> to CC by configure.
>
> Looks like a bug.
>
>    Sincerely, Michail
>
>
>
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