Re: Configure fix

On Apr 24, 2004, at 7:13 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> and I don't know the best way to fix this. The cause is ICU (again) - 
> it
> needs to be linked with the C++ runtime libraries. The problem comes 
> because
> currently Perl's Makefile is constructed in such a way that the same 
> command
> is used for both compiling and linking, so the "obvious" solution of 
> link
> with the C++ compiler doesn't work. Trying to compile Perl with the C++
> compiler fell over because parrot's internals weren't valid C++

One solution is probably to build ICU as shared libraries, which won't 
require the static linker to deal with C++. But at the moment I can't 
get the parrot version of ICU to build shared; it used to, which means 
we're probably broken something.

Alternatively, if perl's makefile supports supplying separate link 
flags, it may be possible to convince the compiler to 
do-the-right-thing at link time. (I believe that compilers often don't 
actually do the linking themselves, but rather know how to invoke a 
separate linker appropriately. That might allow this to work.)

JEff