Hi,
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:48:30PM -0500, Robert Boehne wrote:
> Question:
>
> I am building C++ shared libraries on various
> non-GNU (and GNU of course) platforms so I need to
> determine what compiler options to pass to generate
> position independent code. Now I can always check
> the compilers I have available and shell script
> their options in, but is there a portable way
> to do this? I saw the endian-ness posting, and I
> wonder if there is a similar way to use system utilities
> to check if an object file is PIC, or if it needs to be.
> Then several attempts could be made to give the proper
> PIC generating option based on what a dozen compilers
> currently use.
Why not just use GNU Libtool to handle shared library generation for
you?
> I'd also like a way to create dependency files with
> various compilers too. Automake does a great job
> but only for GCC, not really useful for my project.
I believe that the version of Automake currently in the CVS repository
supports dependency generation for compilers other than gcc via the
newly added `depcomp' script. I'm not sure when the next version of
Automake will be released, however.
-Ossama
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