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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool