HP-UX 11.00 and parsing /bin/nm -p output (failing)

[libtool]

This pertains to the HEAD branch.

When parsing the output of /bin/nm -p, libtool.m4 contains the
following sed statement to massage the output:

# Try without a prefix undercore, then with it.
for ac_symprfx in "" "_"; do

  # Write the raw and C identifiers.
[lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_pipe="sed -n -e 's/^.*[        ]\($symcode\)[
][      ]*\($ac_symprfx\)$sympat$opt_cr$/$symxfrm/p'"]

So, there can be only *one* $symcode between spaces in the /bin/nm -p
output. While creating demo/libtool during a run of 'make tests' for
demo-conf.test, /bin/nm -p generates the following on the sample
conftest.o file:
  $ /bin/nm -p conftest.o
  0000000008 t  D$0
  0000000060 t  D$1
  0000000008 T  main
  0000000000 T  nm_test_func
  0000000001 CS nm_test_var

Under HP-UX 10.20, it gives:
  $ /bin/nm -p conftest.o
  0000000008 t  D$0     
  0000000056 t  D$1
  0000000011 T  main
  0000000003 T  nm_test_func
  0000000001 C  nm_test_var

According to the man page for nm(1):
           -p             Display information in a blank-separated output
                          format.  Each symbol name is preceded by its value
                          (blanks if undefined) and one of the letters A
                          (absolute), B (bss symbol), C (common symbol), D
                          (data symbol), R (section region), S (tstorage
                          symbol), T (text symbol) or U (undefined).  S is
                          used on SOM files only.  If the symbol is local
                          (nonexternal), the type letter is in lowercase.
                          If the symbol is a secondary definition, the type
                          letter is followed by the letter S.  Note that -p
                          is not compatible with -P.  

So, it seems there can be *more* than one $symcode. So, how about we
change the sed statement to look for *more* than one $symcode
separated by spaces? I have looked at the man pages of nm on Solaris
and Tru64 UNIX and don't see anywhere that there is only one $symcode
output.

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)