From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 14:16: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94DC51536A for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:16:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04442; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 14:15:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Mark Ovens Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: gcc differences between aout & ELF In-Reply-To: <19990504235146.D419@marder-1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 May 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Should I expect there to be any differences between the same version > > > of gcc under 2.2.8 and 3.1, other than one outputting aout files and > > > the other outputting ELF?. > > > > > > I have a (large) program that compiled and linked fine using gcc 2.8.1 > > > (*not* the standard gcc used for building the system). After u/g to > > > 3.1 this program wouldn't run as some of the required aout libs are > > > not installed. I installed gcc-2.8.1 from the packages on the 3.1 CD > > > and recompiled my program but I get errors, mainly from the linker > > > (undefined symbols etc). Why don't you rebuild the required libraries to ELF? > > We had to move the a.out libraries to another area and set up ldconfig to > > cache them independently. If you didn't install the 2.2 compatibility > > distribution then you're missing those libraries. > > > > The libs should be in /lib-path/aout. > > > > Yes, I know. It's mainly the xview libs that are missing (not part > of the base dist. or the 2.2 compat stuff) that is why I decided > to re-compile it all as ELF. > > I'm just interested as to why the same version of gcc should, > seemingly behave differently under 2.2.8 and 3.1 It's not, it's acting as it always had. You just have new libraries to consider. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message