Need help buiding bfd shared library

[Jan Beulich]

On 03.08.2022 08:49, Potharla, Rupesh wrote:
>> On 03.08.2022 08:09, Potharla, Rupesh via Binutils wrote:
>>> I am working on building bfd shared library for my code changes. I tried with
>> "configure --enable-shared=bfd" but BFD is creating static library only even
>> with -enable-shared option .  Did I miss something ? Can someone help me
>> with the instructions to build bfd shared library?
>>
>> Did you try --enable-shared without "=bfd"? So far I wasn't aware of that form
>> as an option, and at least a quick inspection of the configure script also
>> doesn't suggest that form might exist. But I may be entirely wrong ...
> 
> I tried that option as well and tried with --enable-host-shared combination also but no luck. 

You may want to inspect configure output then. Here in bfd/config.log I see

configure:8674: checking whether the gcc -std=gnu99 linker (/usr/lib/gcc/.../ld) supports shared libraries
configure:9745: result: yes
...
configure:11365: checking if libtool supports shared libraries
configure:11367: result: yes
configure:11370: checking whether to build shared libraries
configure:11391: result: yes
configure:11394: checking whether to build static libraries
configure:11398: result: yes

I would guess one of these is failing for you, at which point you'd want to
figure out why that is.

Jan