Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Gregory Shimansky wrote:
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
I'm happy to report that both classlib and drlvm at r474892 build on
x86_64/em64t
As Gregory suggested, I had to change the symlinks to from
/usr/lib/lib(jpeg|png).a to /usr/lib/lib(jpeg|png).so in order for the
link to avoid complaining.
Well Geir insists that we should know what we are linking against, so he
prefers static libraries. I don't like it very much (it is contrary to
Gentoo way :) which is to link against anything which is installed on
the system by the user) but I can understand this POV.
The problem is that on many distributions static libs are built without
-fPIC and while on x86 it may still work ok, on x86_64 it definitely
doesn't work. So if we decide that we should use static linking we'll
have to check in prebuilt the binaries into classlib source tree just
like we did with ICU (although ICU libraries are dynamic, not shared). I
see no other way to do static linking.
I see. I wouldn't mind that. Both libpng and libjpeg seem to have an
apache-compatible license.
We already fetch java binary dependencies, it's not unreasonable to have
a OS/CPU-based fetching of native statically built binaries as well
since they are not going to change that much anyway over time.
I don't know where we can fetch static libraries built with -fPIC since
no one does that. Probably this is the way configure scripts configure
the flags for building static libs.
We'll have to build the binaries ourself and store them somewhere (in SVN?).
--
Gregory
