Tru64 5.1 bootstrap fails with missing symbols: libiconv et al.

Rainer Orth ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Fri Jul 18 19:50:00 GMT 2003


Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> You're probably picking up the Tru64 libiconv instead of the GNU libiconv.
> Tru64 has an interesting library search algorithm where it looks for the
> shared versions of libraries along the entire search path before it looks
> for the static versions anywhere, so if you have GNU libiconv installed
> static it will still find the system libiconv (which is shared) even if
> it's later in the library search path.

True, this could make thinks even worse.  And collect2 currently garbles
the -oldstyle_liblookup switch one could use to avoid this ;-(  (cf. PR
other/1963).

	Rainer



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