build shared problem with configure / config.guess
Hi,
I'm constructing some 3rd party libraries from source level with configure/automake in Suse 9.2. A common mistake in all libs is done by config.guess: it prints out "i686-pc-linux-gnuaout" which switch off the shared support at all. It's easy to workaround by print "i686-pc-linux" instead directly from configure:
ac_config_guess="echo i686-pc-linux"
Then the shared support is enabled and there left some minor problems with linker options -soname and --rpath. Then some libs can create the shared libs, for instance the apr and xml2.
Others do not, for instance log4cxx and acetao, but they do not produce any error. It looks like that simply the shared link step is not done, however the symbolic links to the release version are done. I also tryed with LD=CC and LD=cc instead of the gnu ld, but then already in config.log the shared support is not recognized. If I build by hand:
cc -shared *.o -o libACE.so
it seems to work and the result usable by applications. Since acatao includes lots of libraries to build, the manual creation is not handy / possible. So any hint to solving that are welcome. I'm using the latest sunstudio version (feb2007).
thanx rolf
