Re: What causes the 'type and size of dynamic symbol ... not defined' warning?

["Kai Henningsen" <kai@cats.ms>]

On 23 Jul 99, at 11:53, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:25:32 +0200, kai@cats.ms wrote:
> >
> > I'm not so sure that either gcc or ld is at fault. It seems to me the
> > list of clases it complains about, are those GNUstep classes my
> > program uses; it NEVER complains about my own classes.
> >
> > That suggests to me that the fault is in the GNUstep build process.
> >
> > But I don't know what it is, either.
>
> That's an interesting observation - I think it may be true for my code too.
>
> If the problem is only with classes in the GNUstep libraries, that would
> almost certainly make it some problem with the way dynamic libraries are being
> created (or with how ld handles dynamic libraries).

I searched for the NSThread one in nm output.
This might be enlightening:

./gstepsrc/gstep-core-cats.19990723/base/Source/static_obj/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/libgnustep-base_s.a
         U __objc_class_name_NSThread
         U __objc_class_name_NSThread
0000009c R __objc_class_name_NSThread

./gstepsrc/gstep-core-cats.19990723/base/Source/shared_obj/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/libgnustep-base.so.0.5.50017b740
         R __objc_class_name_NSThread

./gstepsrc/gstep-core-cats.19990723/debian/gstep-base/usr/lib/GNUstep/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/libgnustep-base.so.0.5.50017b740
         R __objc_class_name_NSThread

./gstepsrc/gstep-core-cats.19990723/debian/gstep-base-dev/usr/lib/GNUstep/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/libgnustep-base_s.a
         U __objc_class_name_NSThread
         U __objc_class_name_NSThread
0000009c R __objc_class_name_NSThread

I think you're right - this points to a ld bug, unless someone is
actually telling ld to drop that length info.


Regards - Kai Henningsen

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