"Nicholas \"Indy\" Ray" <arelius@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Trying to get GCC plugin support on svn HEAD I've run into a few > configure problems on FreeBSD and OS X. Both having to do with > requiring -fPIC, -shared, -ldl, and -rdynamic. > > On Mac OSX when building for x86_64-apple-darwin it has a problem > checking "for -fPIC -shared" even if I remove both the args in the > LDFlags that still seems to fail, yet both seem to be available on my > OSX gcc when building for x86_64. > > On FreeBSD libdl doesn't exist and dlopen support should be checked by > configure without "-ldl" in LDFLAGS It works just fine with the -ldl > check just removed verbatim, but I don't know autoconf enough to be > able to submit a patch that checks for BSD. Thanks for the report. The plugin support was developed and tested on GNU/Linux. We would be very interested in having people who use other hosts send patches to make the plugin support work on their hosts. The plugin developers use only GNU/Linux so they have no very good way to write and test those patches themselves. Ian
