Hi all,
I've got a library linking question. Hope that you can give me some
suggestion.
Firefox needs the latest cairo library to support its new layout
development. However, the cairo library bundled in Solaris11/Linux
currently is old. So Firefox makes its own cairo snapshot during the
feature development. A cairo static library(a.a for later reference) is
generated from the source code and linked to a dynamic library(b.so for
later reference). At the same time, gtk2 library depends on the system
cairo library(c.so) and c.so will be linked to b.so also. I know it's a
little mess :-[
On ubuntu with gcc, b.so will call the functions in library a.a and
works well. But on Solaris11 with our sunCC(CC: Sun C++ 5.8 2005/10/13),
b.so will call the functions in library c.so and it crashes.
Do we have any option to make b.so call the functions in a.a instead
of c.so on Solaris 11? Or it depends on the linking order of the object
files and libraries?
I don't know whether I've made myself clear about this problem. If
not, please let me know.
Thanks,
-Alfred
