Hi,
From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: [pkgsrc-users] Fixes for Darwin in bootstrap-mk-files
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 02:41:37 -0700
>> Looks almost good, but -force_load is not really equivalent to
>> --whole-archive. While --whole-archive is a nullary switch to start
>> including every object in archive files until --no-whole-archive
>> comes, -force_load is an unary option takes one archive file at a
>> time, so
>>
>> (GNU) % ld --whole-archive libfoo.a libbar.a libbaz.a --no-whole-archive
>>
>> is equivalent to
>>
>> (Apple) % ld -force_load libfoo.a -force_load libbar.a -force_load libbaz.a
>>
>
> Understood. For this particular case, it looks like ${SOLIB} can only
> be one static library so it should be safe (correct me if I'm wrong).
Indeed. You're right.
> Frankly, I suppose software should use
> autotools/cmake/other-more-robust-build-systems instead.
That's so true. libexecinfo should be libtoolized. There's no point in
spending much effort duplicating its functionality IMO.
Thanks,
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