From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Gibson Subject: Re: dtc build failures on OS X Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 09:08:23 +1000 Message-ID: <20090520230823.GB10487@yookeroo.seuss> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: Segher Boessenkool Cc: devicetree-discuss , Timur Tabi List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:38:49PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: >> 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. Actually, the current Makefile builds both, by default. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson