Re: Bug #448: 7.1.3 interfaces build fail on solaris w. gcc

> Bob Deblier (bob(at)virtualunlimited(dot)com) reports a bug with a severity of 1

> This shouldn't be too hard to fix by adding the -lsocket and -lnsl libraries.

Done.

> Furthermore the dynamic linking of libraries is wrong. You use the -G
> option, which is appropriate for Sun's compilers, but not for gcc.
> With gcc, you have to use the '-shared' option.

GCC documents -G for shared libraries, and people have been using that for
years. But it's probably not worth figuring this out since -shared is
clearly preferred.

> Hence all shared libraries fail to build because with a missing 'main'
> symbol. When this happens, the make process just continues, instead of
> aborting with an error.

Hmm, that's an interesting effect.

> Maybe you should switch to building with libtool?

Nope. ;-)

> Anyway, I'd appreciate it if I could directions to fix these problems.

1. in src/interfaces/odbc/GNUmakefile, change

SHLIB_LINK = $(filter -lm, $(LIBS))
to
SHLIB_LINK = $(filter -lm -lnsl -lsocket, $(LIBS))

2. in src/Makefile.shlib, change

LINK.shared = $(COMPILER) -G

into

ifndef cplusplus
ifeq ($(GCC), yes)
LINK.shared = $(CC) -shared
else
LINK.shared = $(CC) -G
endif
else
ifeq ($(GXX), yes)
LINK.shared = $(CXX) -shared
else
LINK.shared = $(CXX) -G
endif
endif

(Or just change the -G if you don't care about generality.)

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