On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:19:53 +0200 Pavel Hlavnicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Does that testing extend to using the libraries from perl?
>
> Unfortunately not. FreeBSD account, which we use for testing, has badly
> compiled C libraries, and doesn't allow to link C++ libraries to C programs.
>
> Perl extension itself compiles fine, but running tests results with some
> unresolved externals.
That sounds about like what I saw. Unresolved externals were for C++
builtin's like delete (with name mangling).
I'm curious that you say that the C Libraries are badly compiled. Is this
something specific to the machine where you have an account, or part of the
way a default FreeBSD machine is configured? What do you know about this
problem? I've had problems as described on FreeBSD systems which should be
pretty vanilla in this regard.
libtool has some problems with linking C and C++ which are noted in its
documentation. If this hasn't caused problems under Linux, then where is the
point of divergence? Has any comparison been done between the way gcc is
compiled under Linux and the way it's compiled under FreeBSD? As far as I can
tell, the differences are all contained in the GCC source distribution config
files.
If there is a problem with the gcc/freebsd config, and it can be addressed
without screwing other programs up, it might be possible to get that changed.
> Any help with tests on this field are *very* welcome.
Tell me what you need.
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