Re: GnuCOBOL symbol lookup error

[Martti Laiho]

I have installed berkeley db and gnucobol-3.1-rc1 on Debian 10 Linux VM.

Installing by "sudo ./configure && make && make install" failed on make, but

succeeded as separate steps of

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

However, on cobc run I get following error

$ cobc -x hello.cob
cobc: symbol lookup error: cobc: undefined symbol: cob_is_xml_namestartchar

I believe this is a bug.

Is this something to be fixed by some configuring, or should I make some changes in libcob/mlio.c

or should I use configure options --with-xml2 / -without-xml2 ?

Best regards

Martti Laiho

email martti.laiho@gmail.com

DBTechNet member

senior lecturer from Haaga-Helia UAS, Helsinki

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 23:20, Martti Laiho <martti.laiho@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I have installed berkeley db and gnucobol-3.1-rc1 on Debian 10 Linux VM.

Installing by "sudo ./configure && make && make install" failed on make, but

succeeded as separate steps of

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

However, on cobc run I get following error

$ cobc -x hello.cob
cobc: symbol lookup error: cobc: undefined symbol: cob_is_xml_namestartchar

Is this something to be fixed by some configuring, or should I make some changes in libcob/mlio.c ?

Best regards

Martti Laiho

email martti.laiho@gmail.com

DBTechNet member

senior lecturer from Haaga-Helia UAS, Helsinki