Re: template test with subdirs failure for HEAD on darwin [WAS support standalone libltdl [libtool--gary--1.0--patch-23]]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Tag!

On 21 Aug 2005, at 16:16, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 04:59:14PM CEST:
> > On 21 Aug 2005, at 08:21, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 07:38:31PM CEST:
> > > Please run with -d -v, post testsuite output, to see what's  
> > > happening.
> >
> > Attached.  Looks like the compiler isn't getting all the switches it
> > would like.
>
> Can you get a demangled name of the symbol __Z2a2c?

I dunno.  This is the kind of horror that makes me avoid C++ as if it
were perl ;-)

Does g++ come with a command line unmangler?

> I think this is a genuine failure with template libraries on darwin.
> IOW: I don't think this ever worked.  Our test is doing the right  
> thing
> and exposes the failure.

Quite possibly.  It does mean that I can't run distcheck on HEAD  
though :-(

> I guess I'll leave that to our Darwin expert to fix, though.

Agreed.  Hi Peter!

> I'd have
> to probably read a lot in order to know how to do something along the
> lines of:
> - put template instantiations in shared C++ library
> - use instantiations from deplibs if possible
> - either use some working sort of weak symbols or one instantiation  
> per
>   object

Likewise.

> We have prelink_cmds as new variable in CVS HEAD to do work before
> linking a program, other outputs should be done in already-established
> variables.  The linux/pgCC case serves as a good example.

For now, I'd rather focus on 2.0 :-D

Cheers,
    Gary.
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