Re: ncurses-6.2-20200817: Error creating shared libraries on NetBSD 9.0

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 09:35:06PM +0000, Rajeev V. Pillai wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 August 2020, 23:57:25 GMT+5:30, Thomas Dickey 
> <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 02:09:18PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > ...
> >> In short, the difference has been there a while.  Perhaps the compiler
> >> (or supporting objects) changed over the past 21 years,...
> 
> >From the follow-up in: 
> >https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=55594
> 
> "-Wl,-shared means "pass -shared to the linker and do nothing else"
>  while -shared means "tell the compiler driver to build a shared
> library", which includes both passing -shared to the linker and also
> doing other things. Without the other things, you'll among other
> things get the wrong crstuff and it won't work."
> 
> As you noted, different runtime objects will be used depending on what is 
> passed.

sure - I pointed that out yesterday (in the part not quoted here).

I'm curious to know at what point it changed from working to non-working,
but finding an accurate answer to that is more work than I've time for.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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