Re: Libtool does not generate shared libraries when cross compiling x86/64 -> sparc64 using fujitsu compiler

Christian Rössel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2016-02-03 18:33, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 03 Feb 2016 14:30, Harald Servat wrote:
>>     we have found that
>>
>>    ./configure --prefix=/tmp/test CC=fccpx --build=x86_64-linux-gnu
>> --host=sparc64-linux-gnu
>>
>>     did not work. See:
>>
>> ...
>> checking whether the fccpx linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf64_sparc) supports
>> shared libraries... no
>> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
>> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... unsupported
>> checking for shl_load... no
>> checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
>> checking for dlopen... yes
>> checking whether a program can dlopen itself... cross
>> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
>> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no
>>
>>     However, the system support suggested to add the flag -Xg into the
>> Fujitsu compiler and we found that the following configure did work.
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=/tmp/test CC=fccpx --host=x86-linux CFLAGS="-Xg"
>>
>> checking whether the fccpx linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
>> libraries... yes
>> checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
>> checking dynamic linker characteristics... fccpx: warning:
>> -print-search-dirs is unrecognized option. This option is passed to the
>> linker.
>> usage: fccpx [options] files.
>> GNU/Linux ld.so
>> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
>> checking for shl_load... no
>> checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
>> checking for dlopen... yes
>> checking whether a program can dlopen itself... cross
>> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
>> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
>>
>>     So that works for the small test example I generated. However, when
>> passing the same flags to the application we want to build, then the
>> libtool still claims it does not support shared libraries. So there are
>> couple of questions then: any idea on why this larger case the addition
>> of CFLAGS and --host does allow libtool to generate shared libraries?
>> And, I don't have direct access to the system, but can I do something to
>> improve the support on this system?
>
> i don't know what "fccpx" is, but i'd guess that libtool just doesn't
> understand how it works.  please attach the config.log file from that
> run.

fccpx/fcc are the Fujitsu C compiler commands: "There  are two types of 
compile commands, one is the cross compile command that is fccpx, and 
the other is the own compile command  that  is fcc."

I got in contact with them on Fujitsu supercomputer like K Computer and 
FX10 systems. With fccpx you cross-compile on a x86_64 login node for 
sparc64 compute nodes. fcc generates code for the x86_64 login node.

You are right, libtool doesn't understand neither fccpx nor fcc nor the 
C++ and Fortran variants. I talked to Fujitsu but they are not eager to 
contribute to libtool.

Christian

> -mike
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