[erlang-patches] shared library avoidance code harmful on certain architectures

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@REDACTED
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> erlang 12 fails to build on NetBSD/amd64. I was told to test the
> patches below.
>
> Basically - use of -lfoo will do the right thing on all (sane) systems,
> while the complicated stuff ended up using libfoo.a, which happened to
> work on NetBSD/i386, but fails on NetBSD/amd64 due to the created text
> relocations.
>

In a future release, we will change the default to link dynamically, with an
option to link statically.

/Bjorn

-- 
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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