Re: creating broken binaries..

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> HPUX cc apparently leaves a broken, but non-executable binary with this
> sequence (which causes fail.at to fail):
>
> | $ echo 'int not_main() { return 0;}' > a.c
> | $ cc -c a.c
> | $ cc -o a a.o; echo $?
> | ld: Unsatisfied symbol "main" in file <no file>
> | 1 errors.
> | 1
> | $ nm a | grep main
> | [60]     |            0|       0|NOTYP|GLOB |0|   UNDEF|main
> | [52]     |     67110912|      16|FUNC |GLOB |0|   .text|not_main
>
> Should libtool remove the output file in case the link line failed?
> I'm a little bit wary of this, it may still be useful for the user?

I think that if most linkers do not output a broken file, then 
libtool should remove (or rename) such files so that behavior is 
consistent.  Libtool should try to assure consistent behavior.

Bob
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