dtc build failures on OS X

[David Gibson]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:38:49PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> I'm trying to build dtc on Mac OS X.  The compilation seems to go
>> okay, but the linker dies.
>
> It doesn't die, it just complains ;-)
>
> You're trying to build a Linux shared library on OSX.  This won't
> work.  Not only are the command line options not the same, the
> semantics are totally different as well; importantly, the versioning
> mechanism is very different.  Given that, you do not want to use
> a shared library at all -- just use a normal (static) library.
> IMNSHO that should be the default, on Linux as well...

It was, originally, but someone wanted a shared lib.

Actually, the current Makefile builds both, by default.

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