On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:11:57 +0100, Nick Glencross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guys, > > I'm currently investigating the build process for nci and dynclasses on > HP-UX. As you may have seen from my previous posts, I'm using gcc and > the native bundled ld. > > Although the build process isn't using the right flags to compile nci > and dynclasses, I've managed to compile things manually. > > Certain files need special PIC treatment (at least on HP-UX) so that > they can be included in shared libraries: > > src/extend.o > src/nci_test.o > dynclasses/*.o > more? > > Hence, these files need: > > GNU cc: -fpic use -fPIC for more portability > HP-UX cc: +z use +Z -z for more portability and higher run-time safety and never forget -Ae, but I can't see from this post if you already use it further, if you use -O2 or up, add +Onolimit > and then for linking the library: > > GNU ld: -shared > HP ld: -b > > Also HP ld does not like -g, and should not be used. In fact, I'm not > aware that any flavours of ld should be using -g (it is ignored in GNU ld). > > Most of the nci tests pass, except for tests 8 and 52 which both hang > (on the dlvar call with "nci_dlvar_int"). > > I'm still working on getting dynclasses working. Although compiled, the > libraries are failing to mmap in the backend of dlopen (probably > unresolved symbols, pic or something else). -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], perl-qa@perl.org
