libgcj/201: error loading shared library, undefined symbol __dso_handle

[Bryce McKinlay]

The following reply was made to PR libgcj/201; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
To: "Robert A . French" <rfrench99@bigfoot.com>,
        java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: libgcj/201: error loading shared library, undefined symbol 
 __dso_handle
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:04:38 +1200

 "Robert A . French" wrote:
 
 > nm /usr/local/lib/libzgcj.so.0 | grep dso:
 > 0000c920 d __dso_handle
 >
 > Apparently that lower case 'd' is a bad thing, should be upper case.
 > Don't know how/why it's like that.
 
 Right. On my system it is upper case:
 
 $ nm /usr/local/gcc/lib/libgcj.so.1 | grep dso
 001672a0 D __dso_handle
 
 I don't know why its different on your system. Perhaps an obscure compiler in
 the particular snapshot your using? Or a linker/assember bug/incompatibilty?
 There was a change to this recently:
 
 2000-04-04  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>
 
         * acconfig.h: Add HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN.
         * config.in: Regenerated.
         * configure.in: Add test for .hidden pseudo-op in gas.
         * configure: Regenerated.
         * crtstuff.c: Include auto-host.h.
         Emit additional .hidden pseudo-op for __dso_handle if the
         assembler knows about it.
 
 I'm using binutils binutils-2.9.5.0.22-6, FWIW.
 
 regards
 
   [ bryce ]