Re: toolchain/55594: Error creating shared library using gcc-7.5.0 on NetBSD 9.0_STABLE

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/55594; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: "Rajeev V. Pillai" <rajeev_v_pillai%yahoo.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: toolchain/55594: Error creating shared library using gcc-7.5.0
 on NetBSD 9.0_STABLE
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 07:39:49 +0200

 On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 09:04:58PM +0000, Rajeev V. Pillai wrote:
 > When discussing this issue with Tom Dickey on the ncurses mailing-list,
 > he pointed out that passing ``-Wl,-shared'' instead of ``-shared''
 > works on NetBSD-8.0 for creating a shared library.
 
 It can work by luck (and presence or abscense of other flags, like 
 -fpie). It still is not the right command.
 
 Martin