From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: dtc build failures on OS X Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 19:46:04 +0200 Message-ID: <82CF1AB0-22C1-4C33-B6E1-B8816AF2E094@kernel.crashing.org> References: <20090520230823.GB10487@yookeroo.seuss> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090520230823.GB10487-787xzQ0H9iRg7VrjXcPTGA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org To: David Gibson Cc: devicetree-discuss , Timur Tabi List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org >>> I'm trying to build dtc on Mac OS X. The compilation seems to go >>> okay, but the linker dies. >> >> It doesn't die, it just complains ;-) >> >> You're trying to build a Linux shared library on OSX. This won't >> work. Not only are the command line options not the same, the >> semantics are totally different as well; importantly, the versioning >> mechanism is very different. Given that, you do not want to use >> a shared library at all -- just use a normal (static) library. >> IMNSHO that should be the default, on Linux as well... > > It was, originally, but someone wanted a shared lib. And you decided to take on all that maintenance pain? You're too good for this world. Or gullible, heh. > Actually, the current Makefile builds both, by default. It shouldn't try to build Linux shared objects unless you are building a Linux target; easiest would be to just never build the shared library by default. Your choice :-) Segher