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authorDavid Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com>2013-10-15 20:33:55 +0000
committerDavid Malcolm <dmalcolm@gcc.gnu.org>2013-10-15 20:33:55 +0000
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Add --enable-host-shared configuration option
/ * configure.ac: Add --enable-host-shared * configure: Regenerate. gcc/ * Makefile.in (PICFLAG): New. (enable_host_shared): New. (INTERNAL_CFLAGS): Use PICFLAG. (LIBIBERTY): Use pic build of libiberty.a if configured with --enable-host-shared. * configure.ac: Add --enable-host-shared, setting up new PICFLAG variable. * configure: Regenerate. * doc/install.texi (--enable-shared): Add note contrasting it with... (--enable-host-shared): New option. libbacktrace/ * configure.ac: Add --enable-host-shared, setting up pre-existing PIC_FLAG variable within Makefile.am et al. * configure: Regenerate. libcpp/ * Makefile.in (PICFLAG): New. (ALL_CFLAGS): Add PICFLAG. (ALL_CXXFLAGS): Likewise. * configure.ac: Add --enable-host-shared, setting up new PICFLAG variable. * configure: Regenerate. libdecnumber/ * Makefile.in (PICFLAG): New. (ALL_CFLAGS): Add PICFLAG. * configure.ac: Add --enable-host-shared, setting up new PICFLAG variable. * configure: Regenerate. libiberty/ * configure.ac: If --enable-host-shared, use -fPIC. * configure: Regenerate. zlib/ * configure.ac: Add --enable-host-shared, setting up new PICFLAG variable. * Makefile.am: Add PICFLAG to libz_a_CFLAGS. * Makefile.in: Regenerate. * configure: Regenerate. From-SVN: r203632
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@@ -925,6 +925,19 @@ Use @option{--disable-shared} to build only static libraries. Note that
@option{--disable-shared} does not accept a list of package names as
argument, only @option{--enable-shared} does.
+Contrast with @option{--enable-host-shared}, which affects @emph{host}
+code.
+
+@item --enable-host-shared
+Specify that the @emph{host} code should be built into position-independent
+machine code (with -fPIC), allowing it to be used within shared libraries,
+but yielding a slightly slower compiler.
+
+Currently this option is only of use to people developing GCC itself.
+
+Contrast with @option{--enable-shared}, which affects @emph{target}
+libraries.
+
@item @anchor{with-gnu-as}--with-gnu-as
Specify that the compiler should assume that the
assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify