Re: Linking glib with gld in Irix

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 15:41 +0200, Magnus Bergman wrote:
> I have problems building glib (2.6.6) in Irix using GCC, gas and gld
> (no, I don't forget to use --with-gnu-ld). It fails then linking
> glib-genmarshal against glib because some symbols, including g_malloc
> cannot be found. Then I examine the glib library (using GNU objdump) I
> see than most symbols are marked hidden, for example:
> 
> 60017e80 l     F *ABS*  00000000 .hidden IA__g_malloc
> 
> While a few are not, for example:
> 
> 600354bc g     F *ABS*  00000000 g_strcasecmp
> 
> I have no idea what that means. I guess it's the reason for the
> failure, but why does it happen? Is it some feature that doesn't work
> as expected on irix, or does it expect some irix feature not supported
> by gld maybe?

What gcc version is that ? Does it support visibility attributes ? Does
configure think it supports visibility ? Does configuring with
--disable-visibility help ?

Matthias