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Re: ld for VMS?
- From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- To: Jay K <jay dot krell at cornell dot edu>
- Cc: <becker dot ismaning at freenet dot de>, <rupp at gnat dot com>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:31:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: ld for VMS?
- References: <155841f3991588483cd1f08797799333@email.freenet.de> <7ECC1459-522F-4D83-A990-3A831CCFFA2D@adacore.com>,<4BD5C1B8.30609@freenet.de> <COL101-W21AD46888447D969481EC1E6F20@phx.gbl>
On May 3, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Jay K wrote:
>
> Thanks. Very helpful.
> Maybe the assert before failing should print "try library /data=expand foo.olb" or such?
Well, I think there are no real reason why bfd can't deal with compressed libs. I will try to investigate
that.
> Oddly, running that command over all files seems like a bad idea:
> I got something "unable to read symbols from starlet.olb". I lost the message.
> I replaced startlet.olb with a pristine copy and now just:
>
> /usr/local/lib/gcc/alpha-dec-vms/4_5_0/pcrt0.o:($DATA$+0x90): undefined reference to `lib$establish'
Looks like pcrt0 was not correctly compiled. IIRC, the current version must be compiled with DEC-C.
I think you could compile it with gcc provided you remove the condition handler. We have done such
a change here and we plan to submit it.
> Looks like maybe I only have the older vaxc$establish in my libraries.
> I am only on 7.x not the current 8.x. The admin is interested in upgrading when he has time.
> Maybe I should edit pcrt0.c. I'll look.
Yes.
Tristan.