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authorH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2012-03-31 16:31:29 +0200
committerH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2012-03-31 16:31:54 +0200
commit9ec4dadfbbcf94d284b7e489694f1fa9fd6647c0 (patch)
tree6288f26601a51812aa7a6bdd5157b2b42d363695 /Porting
parent258f564231885d20cd3b29a014dda4c79b44b1b0 (diff)
downloadperl-9ec4dadfbbcf94d284b7e489694f1fa9fd6647c0.tar.gz
Add ld_can_script probe to Configure
With this new probe, requested by rafl, we could start building perl as it would be built on OSs like AIX and Windows and actually test visibility of the API and thus early detect if tests would fail on these restrictive OSs
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@@ -3619,6 +3619,11 @@ ld (dlsrc.U):
On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect
the hint file setting.
+ld_can_script (dlsrc.U):
+ This variable shows if the loader accepts scripts in the form of
+ -Wl,--version-script=ld.script. This is currently only supported
+ for GNU ld on ELF in dynamic loading builds.
+
lddlflags (dlsrc.U):
This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic