Re: Building LyX 1.2.0 on HP-UX 11.11 with G++ 3.2

["John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>]

> The underlying *object file format* can't handle weak symbols.  Any attempt
> to use them will ultimately fail.

I wasn't absolutely convinced of that.

> Looks like they (HP) are using aborted code -- we tried to make SOM
> secondary definitions masquerade as weak symbols, but in the end it won't
> work due to limitations of secondary definitions.  Trust me, if they're
> emitting .weak for SOM, it's going to break -- it's just a matter of time.

I thought the major issue was we weren't providing a primary symbol
definition for the secondary.  The primary symbol has to have the same
name as the secondary with '_' prefixed.  Maybe gas just needed a fix
to do this?

I recall we also had some trouble with long symbols using HP nm but
I thought that was fixable with the correct options.

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc.ca
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