* Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Relying on 'nm 'finding the variable, and not accidentally matching > another variable with the wrong value, does not work for all C > environments. E.g. some compile to compressed executables; some > produce intermediate objects with incomplete or lazy compiles or > symbolic, to be finished at link stage, and some are even more > abstract.
ACK. And also think of preprocessor symbols (see glibc ;-P) IIRC perl's buildsystem goes this way and so tends to fail. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
