Re: [MiNT] binutils 2.18 patch

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

Alan Hourihane wrote:

> > Without applying your patch, I tried to cross-compile the binutils for 
> > the MiNT host, using --enable-shared, and I got the following error very 
> > early when building libiberty :
> > ../../binutils-2.18-mint-20080228/libiberty/regex.c:1: error: -fpic is 
> > not supported on this target
>
> Right, and that's the problem. It needn't bail like that with the patch.

Ok, I begin to understand...

Without the patch, building the binutils with --enable-shared fails, 
because shared libraries and PIC are not available on the MiNT target.

With the patch, the option --enable-shared can be used to build the 
binutils, but that option is ignored because shared libraries are not 
available on MiNT.

Am I right ?
If so, the obvious way to fix the problem would be to not use the 
--enable-shared option when building the binutils...
I'm probably still missing something...

Note: The libtool.m4 file is part of the GNU libtool project, it is 
copied into every project using it. The official source is here:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/libtool/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4?root=libtool&view=markup
That's where the changes should be finally committed.

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Vincent Rivière