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

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/55594: Error creating shared library using gcc-7.5.0
 on NetBSD 9.0_STABLE
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 09:18:10 +0000

 On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 09:15:02AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
  >  -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.
 
 i can english!
 
 "Without the other things, you'll get the wrong crtstuff and it won't
 work, and maybe there'll be other problems too."
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost