On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Andre Fischer <a...@a-w-f.de> wrote: > On 12/21/11 8:12 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> >> >> --- Mer 21/12/11, Andre Fischer<an...@a-w-f.de> ha scritto: >> ... >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I ran into a problem with a Linux build. On Ubuntu >>> (both 32bit and 64bit) linking of comphelper failed >>> with a lot of unresolved references. With the help of >>> Herbert I could solve this by using a different linker. >>> Instead of ld.bfd I used ld.gold and could build comphelper >>> and the rest of OpenOffice. >>> >>> On Fedora this seems to work out of the box. >>> >>> I am now working on CoinMP (the lp_solve >>> replacement). It builds without problems on Windows >>> and >>> Mac but has linker errors on Linux. Eventually I >>> found that going back to ld.bfd solved this problem. >>> >>> Has anybody else experienced problems with the linker? >>> >>> Does anybody on this list have a deeper understanding of >>> the Linux linkers and can explain >>> what is going on and how to better solve it? >>> >> My understanding is that gold is still experimental: it >> is the planned replacement for GNU ld but GNU ld is >> still the default for some good reason. >> >> The most common problems I've seen with GNU ld are >> related to the linking order: >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45135/linker-order-gcc > > > That is the kind of problem that I ran (and still run) into in comphelper. > Does anybody else has this problem, or is it just me? >
I'm seeing link errors now with comphelper. This is on Ubuntu. It worked fine a few weeks ago. -Rob > >> >> While here, CoinMP has some outdated components. >> I have a couple of header cleanups here: >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/math/coinmp/files/ > > > Good to know. A quick glance shows that these patches are against CoinMP > 1.4, and I am working with CoinMP 1.6. But there may be valuable > information there. I will look into this after the hollidays. > > Regards, > Andre > >> cheers, >> >> Pedro. > >
