[Xapian-devel] Search::Xapian cygwin fix

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Sun Sep 23 22:21:56 BST 2007


On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 10:38:25AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> The problem is that all older cygwin perl builds have their own linker 
> driver called ld2. This sets LDDLFLAGS.
> But since we use here the override LD=$(CC) this does not work for 
> Search::Xapian. We miss -shared.

Ah, I see.  And presumably it's a pain to use ld2 to link C++ code with
Perl because you need to duplicate the things which the g++ driver knows
to do.  I'll sort this out then.

Cheers,
    Olly



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