Re: Linking problem with Xemacs

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:42:29PM -0500, Bartick, Brett wrote:
> Thanks Nick!
> Actually, due to my poor typing skills, the original information in my email
> message was incorrect. I have tested with GNU ld 2.13.2.1 and I experienced
> the same problem. I also sent a more elaborate email message the to Xemacs
> people before I sent one to this group. During my cut & paste operation, I
> copied the wrong information.
> Actually upon further investigate on my part, I noticed a "PROBLEMS" file in
> the Xemacs 21.4.12 tree. This is the pertinent information from that file:
> 
> 
> ** SunOS/Solaris
> *** Dumping error when using GNU binutils / GNU ld on a Sun.
> 
> Errors similar to the following:
> 
>    Dumping under the name xemacs unexec():
>    dldump(/space/rpluim/xemacs-obj/src/xemacs): ld.so.1: ./temacs:
>    fatal: /space/rpluim/xemacs-obj/src/xemacs: unknown dynamic entry:
>    1879048176
> 
> are caused by using GNU ld.  There are several workarounds available:

Hmm, that's DT_VERSYM, marked as "This tag is a GNU extension to the
Solaris version scheme".  Perhaps we shouldn't be generating it on
Solaris then...


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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer