Re: bogus handing of Linux shared libraries

[Philip Blundell]

>Great.  Will you please post a patch to address@hidden that
>tests the glibc version in the native arm case, and assumes it's new
>enough in the cross-build case?

I think something like this will do the trick.  I'll send it to 
libtool-patches once I've tested it, but you might like to check that the 
general idea is what you were expecting.

p.

Index: libtool.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/libtool.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.166
diff -u -p -u -r1.166 libtool.m4
--- libtool.m4  2001/04/24 23:40:42     1.166
+++ libtool.m4  2001/05/28 22:00:36
@@ -3207,11 +3207,21 @@ irix5* | irix6*)
 # This must be Linux ELF.
 linux-gnu*)
   case $host_cpu in
-  alpha* | i*86 | powerpc* | sparc* | ia64* )
-    lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all ;;
+  arm*)
+    if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then
+      lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all
+    else
+      if ls -l /lib/ld-linux.so.2 | grep -q "ld-2.[01]"; then
+        # glibc up to 2.1.1 does not perform some relocations on ARM
+       [lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic ELF [0-9][0-9]*-bit [LM]SB 
(shared object|dynamic lib )']
+      else
+        # this is glibc 2.2 or later
+        lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all
+      fi
+    fi
+    ;;
   *)
-    # glibc up to 2.1.1 does not perform some relocations on ARM
-    [lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic ELF [0-9][0-9]*-bit [LM]SB (shared 
object|dynamic lib )' ;;]
+    lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all ;;
   esac
   lt_cv_file_magic_test_file=`echo /lib/libc.so* /lib/libc-*.so`
   ;;

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