On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 06:33:02PM +0100, Ciaran.Deignan@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > I included in the packages the scripts I used to link the libraries and > > the perl shared-objects, but don't ask me why it suddenly started working. > > And I just wanted to ask you what the problem was ... ;) All I can say is that I had to build the libraries by hand (especially libgimp.a and libgimpui.a). It seems to me that AIX doesn't like the way libtool just renames a shared-object to a .a file (instead of doing the 'ar' thing), and it then complains of duplicate symbols. But for libgimp and libgimpui I also had to tweak the link options to export and import a few external symbols. I spent ages trying to the the Perl modules to work with the shared libs. During the dlload() of the Lib.so and UI.so it couldn't find PLUG_IN_INFO (needed by libgimp.a). I reckon this is an AIX defect. I tried recompiling perl with "run time linking" (-brtl) enabled, but that didn't improve things. Then I just cracked and used "-bstatic -lgimp -lgimpui -bshared" to add these libs statically to the perl modules, which cured the problems. Cheers, Ciaran +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Ciaran Deignan Tel: (France) 04 76 29 79 92 BULL XS-BU (http://www-frec.bull.com) HA and Consolidation Mail to: Ciaran.Deignan@xxxxxxxx Bullcom: 229 79 92 PGP: B1 78 FB 88 FD 86 58 A8 89 7B 22 8C D0 E8 71 FC Fax: 229 75 18 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
