On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:36:30PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> 
> i tried rebuilding perl with my shiny new sparc toolchain, and my libperl
> was giving me lossage about unknown "" symbols, very much like sparc64
> libstdc++ lossage looks like at times:
> 
> /orb/e/pkgsrc.obj.sparc/lang/perl5-base/work.sparc/perl-5.6.1/libperl.so: 
> Undefined symbol "" (reloc type = 23, symnum = 4)

I've seen these kind of errors always when linking a file into a shared 
library that wasn't compiled with the -fPIC flag (with good candidates 
always being libgcc.a and libstdc++.a). I would first make sure that all .o 
files are compiled with this flag and then examine the line which links 
together libperl.so (-Wl,--verbose might be a useful flag for gcc.) 

> i haven't tracked down the exact lossage, but reverted my binutils to 2.9*
> seems and rebuilding perl from scratch seems to have removed the error (also
> back to egcs 1.1.2, but just that was not enough.  also do binutils was.)

That seems to confuse me a bit. The error might well be in the gcc setup, 
but binutils shouldn't affect the behaviour. At least we've got vanilla GNU 
binutils 2.10.1 running here without any problems (NetBSD sparc 1.5). 


HTH anyway

Michael