Re: GNU ld shared library support for IRIX 5/6

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>]

Rainer Orth wrote:
> While trying to reenable GCC 3 support for IRIX 5.3
> 
> 	http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-07/msg02249.html
> 
> I tried to use gcc 3.4 with GNU ld.  It is currently disabled in the
> toplevel configure.in with this comment:
> 
>   mips*-*-irix5*)
>     # The GNU linker does not support shared libraries.
>     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gprof target-libgloss ${libgcj}"
>     ;;
> 
> I manually enabled and built it, and after providing the corresponding
> iris5gld.h file in gcc, was able to use it.  Unfortunately, the comment is
> true: ld isn't able to use IRIX 5's libc.so.1, but insists on libc.a (which
> isn't installed at all on the system in question).  I can hardly believe
> this: is there really no support for shared libraries with 32-bit MIPS (O32
> ABI), and if so, what would it take to add this?  Btw., what about the N32
> and N64 ABIs in this respect?

Richard contributed recently some patches for IRIX NewABI shared
library support.


Thiemo