Re: postdeps empty on OpenBSD

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Olly Betts wrote:

> I'm trying to link C++ code into a shared object for use as a Python
> module.  I'm using libtool to do the linking.  On Linux this works
> well, but on OpenBSD it fails with lots of C++ library symbols not
> found.

You may encounter more problems even after a successful link.  The 
problem is that static initialization (including initializing C++ 
exception support) may not be done correctly for C++ code loaded by a 
C program.

It should help to use the C++ compiler to do the link rather than a C 
compiler.

Bob
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