Re: flang not handled correctly

Not an answer to your flags issue per-se, but this might help with 
soname and possibly shed some light on your flag issue.

https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/soversion/

If not, sorry for the distraction.

soname has to do with package creation, not compiling.

On 7/21/26 5:11 AM, Anton Shterenlikht via Discussion list for the GNU 
libtool shared library maintenance tool wrote:
> I've been hit with this issues multiple times before, see e.g.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2024-07/msg00002.html
>
> I'm now trying an upcoming AMD "new flang" compiler from here:
>
> https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/misc/flang
>
> using libtool 2.6.2
>
> The resulting "libtool" file has empty "wl=":
>
>
> # A language specific compiler.
> CC="ftn"
>
> # Is the compiler the GNU compiler?
> with_gcc=no
>
> # Compiler flag to turn off builtin functions.
> no_builtin_flag=""
>
> # Additional compiler flags for building library objects.
> pic_flag=""
>
> # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler.
> wl=""
>
>
> which results in:
>
> flang-23: error: unknown argument: '-soname'
>
> I'm not sure why this happens.
> Looking at aclocal/libtool.m4, "*flang*" should be correct.
> It should catch compiler names such as armflang, amdflang, etc. or,
> as in this case flang-23.
>
>
> 4972       *flang* | ftn | f18* | f95*)
> 4973         # Flang compiler.
> 4974         _LT_TAGVAR(lt_prog_compiler_wl, $1)='-Wl,'
> 4975         _LT_TAGVAR(lt_prog_compiler_pic, $1)='-fPIC'
> 4976         _LT_TAGVAR(lt_prog_compiler_static, $1)='-static'
> 4977         ;;
>
> The immediate workaround, as before, is to simply fix
> the resulting libtool script after configure has completed:
>
> sed -i 's/^wl=""/wl="-Wl,"/g' libtool
>
> but it would be good to understand what is causing libtool
> to generate the libtool script with emtpy "wl=" in the first place.
>
> Thank you
>
> Anton
>
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