[MPlayer-dev-eng] configure and unsupported -rdynamic flag on mingw

Joey Parrish joey at nicewarrior.org
Thu Apr 8 16:25:06 CEST 2004


On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:00:02AM +0200, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> on mingw I always get a 
> gcc.exe: unrecognized option `-rdynamic
> at the end of the linking stage o
> 
> So I checked configure from where this flag might come from
> 
> In line 5770 in configure I can see the following:
> 
> # Dynamic linking flags 
> # (FIXME: 'echocheck "dynamic linking"' above and modify here accordingly)
> _ld_dl_dynamic=''
> bsd && _ld_dl_dynamic='-rdynamic'
> test "$_xanim" = yes && _ld_dl_dynamic='-rdynamic'
> test "$_real" = yes && _ld_dl_dynamic='-rdynamic'
> 
> Shouldn't it be test bsd ?

I presume -rdynamic is needed for the loader on unix-like systems
and on bsd's even without loader.  On mingw and cygwin, it's not
needed, but it also doesn't break anything.  You can ignore it.

--Joey

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