* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 [ solaris CC ]: Document issue with C++

standard libraries.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index caa222a96c06c90d6eabb55f0e9743ed1584c9d9..ba831672adc16168abef59799ac28ada8ba698e6 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-08-31  Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 [ solaris CC ]: Document issue with C++
+       standard libraries.
+
 2005-08-30  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>
 
        * libltdl/m4/ltoptions.m4 (AC_LIBTOOL_PIC_MODE): Renamed...

diff --git a/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 b/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
index e6106d1c5ce30ee9f074211433603480499c9ef7..58b4d622fa1c17ff376aa65a63ecd949a49f7c7e 100644 (file)
--- a/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
+++ b/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
@@ -6018,6 +6018,9 @@ m4_if([$1], [CXX],
 solaris*)
   case $cc_basename in
   CC*)
+    # Adding this requires a known-good setup of shared libraries for
+    # Sun compiler versions before 5.6, else PIC objects from an old
+    # archive will be linked into the output, leading to subtle bugs.
     _LT_TAGVAR(postdeps,$1)='-lCstd -lCrun'
     ;;
   esac