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

[Albert Chin <gcc@lists.thewrittenword.com>]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 05:38:56PM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> In message < 200208222245.g7MMjAXl007183@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca >, "John David Anglin
> " writes:
>  >> But the primary symbol had to be a normal symbol with the underscore 
>  >> prefix *and* with external scope.  The external scope restriction
>  >> is what killed using secondary definitions to emulate weak definitions.
>  >
>  >It's not obvious that the primary needs to be external.  I am looking
>  >at map_secondary_to_primary in fixups.c.  If it needs to be external,
>  >could it be hidden?
> I hadn't thought about trying to tweak the hidden bit for the primary.
> It's definitely worth a try -- the lack of weak symbol support is a major
> problem on this platform so it's worth some effort to try and make
> secondary definitions act like weak symbols.

Does HP-UX handle C++ code with templates well (by "well" I mean as
"well" as on Solaris or Tru64 UNIX or IRIX)? The problems we're
running into have to do with template code.

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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)