Re: no .so file on HPUX platform?

[Albert Chin]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:11:07PM -0700, Ed Hartnett wrote:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > * Ed Hartnett wrote on Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:31:36PM CET:
> >> 
> >> I only have this one HPUX system to test on, and it's pretty out of
> >> date, I suspect. But if I ask them to upgrade it, they'll probably
> >> just say "Nah, let's just get rid of it..."
> >
> > Do you have aCC installed there?  If yes, could you try to build netcdf
> > with it?  Over here it's chosen, rather than CC, as C++ compiler.
> 
> OK, this gave me the clue to try with with CXX=g++. This allows
> libtool to continue to build shared libraries. But there is still a
> problem, alas!
> 
> Can anyone tell me why this link is failing?
> 
>         /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC    --mode=link cc  -g
>         -version-info 4:0:0 -no-undefined   -o libnetcdf.la -rp\
> ath /usr/local/lib attr.lo ncx.lo putget.lo dim.lo error.lo libvers.lo
>         nc.lo string.lo v1hpg.lo var.lo   posixio.l\
> o
> libtool: link: cc -b -Wl,+h -Wl,libnetcdf.sl.4 -Wl,+b
>         -Wl,/usr/local/lib -o .libs/libnetcdf.sl.4.0  .libs/attr.o .l\
> ibs/ncx.o .libs/putget.o .libs/dim.o .libs/error.o .libs/libvers.o
>         .libs/nc.o .libs/string.o .libs/v1hpg.o .libs/va\
> r.o .libs/posixio.o   -lc
> cc: warning 422: Unknown option "b" ignored.
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols:
>    main (Not referenced yet! Probably due to -u option)

While you set CXX=g++, did you set CC=gcc? If not, then the default
bundled compiler, cc, would be selected. And, it cannot be used to
build shared libraries. So, just add CC=gcc.

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albert chin (address@hidden)