[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-3181906 ] Compile error with --disable-load on Mac OS X

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Bugs item #3181906, was opened at 2011-02-15 09:27
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Category: 40. Dynamic Loading
Group: current: 8.5.9
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Maarten ter Huurne (mthuurne)
Assigned to: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Summary: Compile error with --disable-load on Mac OS X

Initial Comment:
Platform: Mac OS X, version 10.4/10.5/10.6
The problem occurs on 10.6 as well, but is harder to reproduce there, see below.

When configured with --disable-load, the tclLoadDyld.c source is not built. However, tclIOUtil.c will use TclpLoadMemoryGetBuffer() and TclpLoadMemory() (both implemented in tclLoadDyld.c) if TCL_LOAD_FROM_MEMORY is #defined. This leads to missing symbols at link time:

gcc-4.2 -Os -arch i386 -D__ENVIRONMENT_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED__=1050 -pipe   -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk   -arch i386 -D__ENVIRONMENT_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED__=1050 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk  tclAppInit.o -L/Users/mth/prog/openmsx/tclbug-build -ltcl8.5 -framework CoreFoundation  -sectcreate __TEXT __info_plist Tclsh-Info.plist \
		 -o tclsh
Undefined symbols:
  "_TclpLoadMemoryGetBuffer", referenced from:
      _TclLoadFile in libtcl8.5.a(tclIOUtil.o)
  "_TclpLoadMemory", referenced from:
      _TclLoadFile in libtcl8.5.a(tclIOUtil.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [tclsh] Error 1

I worked around the issue by modifying conifgure like this: (instead of unconditionally #defining TCL_LOAD_FROM_MEMORY on Darwin)

if test "$DL_OBJS" != "tclLoadNone.o"; then
cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
#define TCL_LOAD_FROM_MEMORY 1
_ACEOF
fi

To reproduce the problem, it is essential to compile for OS X 10.4 or 10.5, since those contain Tcl 8.4 in the SDK while 10.6 contains Tcl 8.5 in the SDK and tclsh is linked to the systemwide libtcl instead to the one just built (maybe that is a bug in itself?). For convenience, I attached the script that I used to demonstrate the problem. It sets environment variables and compile flags to build for Mac OS X 10.5, even if you run it on 10.6.


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