On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Doug White wrote:
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:45:40 -0800 (PST)
> From: Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Atrens, Andrew (A.B.) [EXCHANGE:SKY:1U33]"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: framemaker for linux
>
> On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Andrew Atrens wrote:
>
> >
> > All,
> >
> > This might be a linux ABI question, or it might be an `ld.so' question,
> > so arguably I could have sent this to emulation, questions or since I run
> > -current, current, or perhaps hackers, at any rate here goes -
> >
> >
> > I've got `framemaker for linux' and am getting -
> >
> > # maker5X.exe
> > maker5X.exe: error in loading shared libraries
> > : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
> >
>
> I believe this is a libc issue. I remember running into this before,
> although on the FreeBSD ABI (I _think_).
Quite possibly since at the root of it, it's a gcc/egcs incompatibility.
The problem is described quite nicely in the glibc FAQ -
| 2.8. When I run an executable on one system which I compiled on
| another, I get dynamic linker errors. Both systems have the same
| version of glibc installed. What's wrong?
|
| {ZW} Glibc on one of these systems was compiled with gcc 2.7 or 2.8, the
| other with egcs (any version). Egcs has functions in its internal
| `libgcc.a' to support exception handling with C++. They are linked into
| any program or dynamic library compiled with egcs, whether it needs them
| or
| not. Dynamic libraries then turn around and export those functions again
| unless special steps are taken to prevent them.
|
| When you link your program, it resolves its references to the exception
| functions to the ones exported accidentally by libc.so. That works fine
| as
| long as libc has those functions. On the other system, libc doesn't have
| those functions because it was compiled by gcc 2.8, and you get undefined
| symbol errors. The symbols in question are named things like
| `__register_frame_info'.
The best thing to do is get the glibc-2.1.2-11.i386.rpm from redhat and
install it with -
rpm --ignoreos --root=/usr/compat/linux --nodeps -i glibc-2.1.2-11.i386.rpm
This version apparently has stubs for __register_frame_info and friends
and so will work irregardless of which gcc it was built with.
Andrew.
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