What's the difference between .os and .oS?

Will Newton will.newton at gmail.com
Tue Nov 21 17:41:13 UTC 2006


On 11/21/06, Khem Raj <kraj at mvista.com> wrote:

> > I'm building libpthread/linuxthreads and it appears pthread.c is built
> > without -DSHARED (it's an .os) but libc_pthread_init.c is built with
> > -DSHARED (it's an .oS)
> thats the difference between .oS and .os if you want uclibc to support
> shared libs then it will generate .oS objects compiled with -DSHARED
> > and the mismatch is problematic.
> >
> I am using linuxthreads.old and I configure uclibc for both PIC and
> SHARED. I am seeing both objects (os and oS) for both these files.
> have you set HAVE_SHARED=y in your .config file.

Yes, HAVE_SHARED=y. The line in the Makefile.in is:

libpthread-so-y += $(libpthread_OBJ:.o=.os)

I believe this should by .oS, at least that works for me, I'm just not
sure of the conventions for when it should be used.



More information about the uClibc mailing list