Re: [Mesa3d-dev] static linking of 3.5 on irix

[Eric P. <eri...@di...>]

> I don't know why they reextract the archive, but anyhow, I just tried a static
> library build and a quick grep loop showed that all members of libNInt.al were
> included in libGLU.a.

Yes, if I do an nm -C libGLU.a everything I need is listed, but some of
them are marked "UNDEF", and those are the ones that cause the problem.
If you look at what you get from nm -C libNInt.a, you'll notice that
those symbols are there and this time they're not UNDEF. It seems to be
related to the fact that ranlib is run on the .a, which is not necessary
on IRIX (see the ar man page on irix). I ended up doing my own libGLU.a
with
ar cru libGLU.a `find . -name "*.o"`
and that worked quite well. No substitutes for doing things yourself;
don't trust dose darn machines :-).

> using the latest versions of autoconf, automake, and libtool. Maybe it was
> just a bug in one of them (I take it you built from the last release, right?).

Yes. This is likely a libtool issue. If I get around to it I'll mention
it to them.

> :) I guess to some extent hairy problems tend to result in hairy solutions.

True. With those things (autoconf etc), I usually end up with no hair
and no solutions. :-)


Thanks,

-- 
eric plante, software developer, effects, discreet