Re: [Plplot-devel] netbsd portability effort status--- one showstopper and 3 other problems

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

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2003-03-25 19:05]:

> > grep SH_LD `which mkoctfile` |grep '='
> > : ${SH_LD="ld"}
> > : ${SH_LDFLAGS=""}
> >
> >
> > When it should have been the Linux result:
> >
> > grep SH_LD `which mkoctfile` | grep '='
> > : ${SH_LD="/usr/bin/g++"}
> > : ${SH_LDFLAGS="-shared"}
>
> We could find a workaround for this brokenness by checking for g++ in
> configure.ac and modifying bindings/octave/Makefile.am such that mkoctfile
> is invoked like this for netbsd:
>
>     SH_LD="/usr/bin/g++" SH_LDFLAGS="-shared" mkoctfile [...]
>
> Please, could you confirm that the above work in your netbsd system?

Yes, that works.  But I hate like hell to embed special stuff in our own
configuration system just to compensate for this brokeness.  If you do
something like that please put lots of warning commentary around it that it
stays in our configuration only as long as netbsd is broken.

>
> An aside question: what is the result of this in netbsd:
>
>     echo `uname -s`-`uname -r`

NetBSD-1.6M

Alan
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