Re: Absoft Libtool problem

[Jeff Squyres]

<egg on my face>

I did NOT mean to CC the bug-libtool list yet -- doh!

Suffice it to say that we think we have found a problem with Libtool 2.2.6b 
with the Absoft Fortran compiler.  More details coming shortly.

</egg on my face>



On Jan 29, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:

> On Jan 29, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Tony Goelz wrote:
> 
> > The problem has been diagnosed as far as we can go. Libtool is passing 
> > options
> > we do not recognize. I can suggest that our compiler driver for OS X be 
> > modified
> > to pass these arguments (and their option arguments) onto the link stage in 
> > our
> > next release. This will not fix the problem on PowerPC OS X as we have 
> > stopped
> > all PowerPC development as Apple doesn't even support PowerPC in their 
> > latest OS
> > X release.
> >
> > I would be happy to submit a bug report to the Libtool if I have the 
> > appropriate
> > place.  The suggested fix is to use the -Wl, option to pass these arguments
> > "-Wl,-install_name -Wl,name" etc., but I don't have any idea of how libtool
> > works or how difficult this would be to implement.
> 
> Ok, submitting the behavior would probably be best.
> 
> You'll have to sign up on their mailing list (sorry): address@hidden
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-libtool
> 
> I'd say that sending the detailed output from "make" of my sample tarball 
> should be sufficient, and a description of "prefix it with -Wl..." might be 
> enough.  Feel free to CC me and/or say we discovered the problem with Open 
> MPI, but then say that we replicated it with a small/trivial example to show 
> just that problem outside of the complexity of Open MPI (they know us 
> OMPI'ers over there on the bug-libtool list ;-) ).


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Jeff Squyres
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