Re: [MiNT] GNU dld

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 17:14 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:22 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:22 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 00:57 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > > > Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > > > Has anyone ever looked at GNU dld ? Vincent ?
> > > > 
> > > > Hello, Alan.
> > > > 
> > > > I never heard about dld.
> > > > 
> > > > Do you mean that Perl can take advantage of dld to dynamically load object 
> > > > files ?
> > > 
> > > Right.
> > > 
> > > > Is it a requirement to build the latest Perl, or is it an enhancement ?
> > > 
> > > Enhancement.
> > > 
> > > > In other words, is dld mandatory for us, or is it an additional interesting 
> > > > feature ?
> > > 
> > > Not mandatory, but a very interesting useful feature.
> > 
> > O.k. got dld working here with the test programs. Off to try perl with
> > it now.
> 
> It seems that perl now needs the -r flag to ld working which is
> obviously broken at the moment.
> 
> Vincent - do you know the scale of the problem to fix this and offer any
> pointers and I'll go take a look if you haven't the time ?

Vincent - just got your reply. I must not be up-to-date with your latest
binutils patches. I'll go check and re-try.

Thanks,

Alan.