Re: 1999-07-12 snapshot - problem with ld on DEC unix

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <19990714091255.7836.qmail@noxious.muscat.co.uk>you write:
  > I'm trying to compile the 1999-07-12 snapshot on an alpha box running DEC
  > unix.  `uname -s -r' reports `OSF1 V4.0'.
  > 
  > However the version of ld we have is being stroppy about linking object
  > files with no content (which are encountered when the whole of the source
  > file is excluded by a `#ifdef' test).  ld moans:
  > 
  > /usr/bin/ld:
  > No symbolic information for: mbchar.o
  > 
  > `ld -V' reports `/usr/bin/ld version 3.11'.  I can't see any likely looking
  > switches in the ld man page to disable this check.
  > 
  > The obvious nasty workaround is to edit each of the problem object files
  > out of the makefiles as they crop up.  So far I've found mbchar.o,
  >  dwarfout.o, xcoffout.o, and reorg.o.  And I'm rapidly losing enthusiasm
  > for this approach.
  > 
  > Is this a known problem?  I can't find any specific notes for any alpha
  > platforms in either of these:
Odd.  I haven't seen that on our osf4.0a box, running ld 3.11.  I wonder
why it's happening for you, but not for me (or anyone else, I don't remember
seeing anyone report problems of this nature on osf4).

jeff