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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expat 2.1.0-1


On 2013-04-16 10:18, Dave Korn wrote:
   GDB apparently prefers linking statically to libexpat.  Dunno why,

Not really, here's the problem:

expat, gettext/iconv, and liblzma are detected via AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS, which uses config.rpath to create an absolute path to the given library. As I've mentioned on a number of occasions, the old version of that file in the toplevel of the Cygnus trees (binutils/gcc/gdb/insight) requires a patch:

--- config.rpath
+++ config.rpath
@@ -440,3 +440,3 @@
   cygwin* | mingw* | pw32*)
-    shrext=.dll
+    shrext=.dll.a
     ;;

The reason being that we are looking for *link* libraries here. (FWIW this has already been fixed in the canonical source of this file, but the Cygnus trees are historically slow to update their build infrastructure.) So, on these platforms, it will detect and prefer the static library if present; otherwise, it will revert to using an ordinary -l link flag. This is NOT indicative of a general preference for static linkage.

While it would be preferred to get this patch upstreamed, there is a workaround via configure flags:

--without-libiconv-prefix --without-libintl-prefix --without-libexpat-prefix --without-liblzma-prefix

This will cause the check to use ordinary -l link flags for these libraries.

HTH,


Yaakov


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