Re: [Plplot-devel] KCC flags

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

Hello Maurice:

In an effort to help you out, I have been poking around in info libtool this
morning.  If you search for "compiler characteristics" there, the
documentation clearly states that for the solaris2 platform, the
position-independent code switch is -KPIC rather than the -fPIC that you are
getting.

So I am wondering whether some of our instructions in configure.ac,
sysloc.in, etc. are confusing libtool in non-gcc situations.

To gain some insight into that question I suggest it is time to try a
different approach; use a simple example with unmodified/unhacked
configure.ac generated by autoscan as a test case.  Use the autobook "hello
world" example (suitably modified if necessary so it exercises what is not
working for you at the moment with plplot) to see whether everything works
well for all your compilers/platforms for that simple example.  After all,
autotools are used by thousands of projects, and if you grep for kcc and KCC
in configure, it does seem to be aware of that compiler.  Thus, my working
hypothesis is a simple example with autoscan-generated configure.ac is going
to work on all the compilers/platforms of interest to you, and that will
give you some insight in what we are doing wrong for our more complicated
project.

Alan

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