[Lcdproc] uClinux patching

[Hans Eklund]

Hi Developers

First: Read something about Lcdproc uClinux port for a router in the archives, 
but no details really. If anyone has information about a patch for lcdproc 
0.5.1 against uClibc i would be glad, if not I may have a patch soon comming 
up wich i believe would be appreciated by the uClinux community. Personally 
im working with uClinux drivers for Blackfin.

Have made some basic patching to the code so it compiles(mostly changed 
daemonzie code so far). But at link time it fails and im somwhat puzzled:

configuring with,

./configure --host=bfin-uclinux --disable-libusb --disable-ldap --enable-drivers=hd44780 
CPPFLAGS="-DUCLINUX" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-elf2flt"

as usual. make goes through with compiling. But while building a shared 
library:

bfin-uclinux-gcc -fPIC -Wall  -O3 -Wno-unused-function -shared -Wl,-elf2flt -o 
hd44780.so  hd44780-hd44780.o libLCD.a hd44780-hd44780-serial.o 
hd44780-hd44780-lis2.o hd44780-hd44780-4bit.o hd44780-hd44780-ext8bit.o 
hd44780-lcd_sem.o hd44780-hd44780-winamp.o hd44780-hd44780-serialLpt.o 
hd44780-i2c.o  libbignum.a
-shared used without passing a shared library ID
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [hd44780.so] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hans/vpx/lcdproc-0.5.1/server/drivers'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hans/vpx/lcdproc-0.5.1/server'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hans/vpx/lcdproc-0.5.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

But building a shared library fails and i have little experience with building 
such, did some studys at 
http://www.ucdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/25/1126257&mode=thread on how to 
build shared libraries for uclinux. Would you recommend building it as a 
shared library for uclinux or should i try to build the entire package in a 
static manner instead? Is it possible, so any recommendations for that would 
be appreciated.

regards

Hans Eklund.
www.rubico.ab