Problems with Slibcfp.a

[Alfred Koebler]

srodawa at vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa) writes:

>I am trying to compile dvips for Xenix/386 using the gcc compiler.
>I got errors out of ld in /lib/386/Slibcfp.a as follows:
>Three symbols are defined more than once.  They are:
>  _atof in (atof.c)
>  _fltrd in (atof.c)
>  __doprnt in (doprnt.c)

We had the same problem with double defined symbol __doprnt a half year ago.
It is caused by Slibc.a and Slibcfp.a
In both libraries is the __doprnt symbol defined.
It's source file is doprnt.c
Only in the source file for Slibcfp.a is the symbol __rlprint defined.
In our case the linker searched first for __doprnt. He used Slibc.a
Then he needs the symbol __rlprint and uses Slibcfp.a
In this moment the error of symbols defined more than once occurs.

I got this info with the system utility "nm". It shows the symbols of the
library.

To solve this problem, the linker had always to use Slibcfp.a

Therefore I wrote the following little C-programm:

extern _rlprint;
__emergency__()
{
  int i;
  i = __rlprint;
}

I compiled the programm with "cc -c emergency.c"

Then I always link the emergency.o file before all user files.


We haven't problems with symbols from atof.c
I think it would be the same problem.

Nice to hear from you	Alfred

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