-frepo different on Solaris/Linux

[Ahmed Mian Syed <mian at lynx dot fmi dot uni-passau dot de>]

Hi!

I'm not sure if my last EMail about this subject has reached you, but I know of
no way to find out except to remail it ..  sorry if this reaches you for a
second time.

I have problems with the -frepo option in a Linux machine (Athlon 600, 256M,
SCSI & IDE, .., SuSE 6.3 Linux, GNU ld 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1.0.25) and
SuSE-default ecgs-2.91.66 19999314 (egcs-1.1.2))

I have several sub-directories which result in 3 shared libraries (.so), which
will be linked to some main file in one of the directories.  All of them use
parts of the STL.  I use the -frepo option, applying template closure (linking
without shared-option) in order to get all template instances.

This whole project compiles perfectly ok on a SUN Solaris 2.6 machine using 'gcc
version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)' and 'ld:  Software Generation Utilities -
Solaris/ELF (3.0)'.  When linking collect2 starts some more phases of
recompiling/relinking, finishing with a complete library closure.

On Linux (I have tried several egcs-Versions and also a different P II-266
machine) the recompiling is limited to a single very short phase, after which I
get very many error messages and *no complete template closure*.  Linking the
libraries with the main file results in very many linker errors.

I have also tried to 
- copy the .rpo-files from the Solaris machine to the Linux machine and compile
  again- no success 
- link all the .o-files (using find) without building shared libraries 
  - no success.
  
If you wish I can send you the source code (about 2 MB in tgz) or the error 
message from the linker.  

I'd be very grateful for some help here, since I could continue to work at home 
in the evening and on weekends to reduce the time pressure for my Ph.D-thesis I 
currently have ..


Thanks a lot in advance!


Best Regards


Ahmed Mian Syed
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