Re: :dll and linking to other libraries

Magnus Therning wrote:

> >It appears you are using Linux-specific things.  Aap tries to be
> >portable, thus not rely on system-specific implementation of commands.
> 
> Well, I'd argue that part of the portability of a tool would be that it
> adapts to the platform and its tools. On Windows it adapts and uses the
> M$ tools, why doesn't it adapt to Linux?

Aap recipes should not contain system-specific things, if possible.
Then the same recipe runs on many systems.  The system-specific behavior
should be restricted to a few places.

Main problem with portability is all the different arguments you can
give to a compiler.  These are not very portable.  The only sort-of
standard that exists is what the original Unix cc accepts.  gcc and msvc
have added lots of non-standard arguments.

> Besides this isn't a Linux specific thing:
> 
>  ldd(1) man pages:
>  SunOS: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?00+00
>  FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ldd&sektion=1&apropo> s=0&manpath=freebsd

I'm using FreeBSD, but it's ldd apparently works differently.  Might
depend on the version used.

> The line
> 
>  LD = gcc
> 
> has absolutely no effect on :dll rules for me, linking is still done
> with 'ld -shared'.

Sorry, $LD is only used for normal linking.  For a shared library
$SHLINK is used.

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