Re: Wrt to Tru64

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Tuesday 10 April 2001 11:36 am, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Hi  Alexandre, Gary  ,

Hello!

>   Included below is a patch that  i generated today by doing a cvs diff
> . This  time i tried to build the entire stuff and do a make chcek

Excellent.  Thankyou for taking the time to do this, it will help to make 
libtool 1.4 as stable as we can make it.  Cheers.  Committed.

> It
> failed for two test . But that was noting related to the changes I made
> ( atleast Ithink so ) . Any how  I will look into the same  .

Hmm.  Pity.  I have noticed the occasional spurious failure in the uninstall 
tests which are fixed by doing a make maintainer-clean and restarting the 
test suite.  Hopefully that is what you are experiencing...

> Again
> regarind  pasing $wl for gcc I verified it on my machine and it went
> through fine .

Cool.  Thanks.

> But this was actually a problem with cxx compiler from
> compaq . Hope they will fix it fast so that we can have $wl for all the
> compiler inside libtool . As of now the issue is only with cxx compiler
> when used with -rpath

No can do.  We still want to support people who have only the broken version, 
once it has been released it is difficult to take it back.

> One  more thing  when I am running the configure  for the test program i
> worte for validating the changes i made  I got the following error . But
> still things went through fine . It has hidden all the symbols other
> that the one i specified in my SYMFILE . This was the error i got when
> running configure on my test program . I am looking  into this right now
>
>
>
> ./ltconfig[633]: syntax error at line 1 : `COPYING' unexpected

Wierd.  We will be interested to hear what you discover.

> Another thing i would like to mention is that when ever i use a
> c++ program with templates   cxx cmplr will generate  a cxx repository
> with many internally generated files ( I guess this happen even on
> solaris ) . This need to be linked with the file executable u create .
> Otherwise u will get lot of unresolved symbols . But  I think libtool
> doesn't take care of that .  I am right now looking on adding this
> support but if any one is already working on the same for solaris it
> should be easy for me . :)

gcc on Solaris works fine with MLB and HEAD libtool for me...

>  -aneesh

Cheers,
        Gary.
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