Re: [Monotone-devel] building 0.38 on AIX

[Stephen Leake]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> "Kelly F. Hickel" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The issue is that unix/tester-plaf.o gets included into libplatform.a,
>> but needs symbols defined in tester.cc to actually link.  The AIX linker
>> is fairly pedantic about unresolved symbols, often to the point on
>> insanity in my opinion.  If I remove unix/tester-plat.o from the .a,
>> then I can build the mtn binary.
>
> Files that are in a library but not the link should not cause
> unresolved symbol problems.
>
> What is pulling in tester-plaf.o without tester.cc?
>
> But I guess you are saying the AIX linker doesn't work this way; it
> tries to link the entire library whether it needs to or not? That
> seems more "broken" than "pedantic".

Another solution is to use the Gnu compiler and linker; would that be
a problem?

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