Building and linking shared libaries for multiple different versions of UNIX

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi,

Reality has hit, now that libsmbclient is being built on the build farm
that Andrew has put together.

The sections I have added to Makefile.in to build shared libraries are
don't work. They are specific to Linux :-)

I have to figure out some ways of making this portable so I can build
shared libraries for lots of combinations.

I do not want to force libtool on the Samba team, so I need to use other
techniques.

Andrew has suggested that I need scripts to do the linking, and obviously,
I need some configure test scripts to check if I can build shared libraries
on each of the architectures we build for ... but I have some questions:

1. Do the flags for generating PIC differ from system to system, esp if
using the native compilers?

If so, I imagine I can get away with defining the appropriate flags
(PICFLAGS) and passing them to the compiler in Makefile.

2. Can I get away with defining something like SOLDFLAGS, and simply pass
that to $(LD)?

3. Any hints would be appreciated ... I think I will go and look at CUPS to
see if Michael Sweet has dealt with this before.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba