Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 17:40:48 +0200 From: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org> To: kde-devel@kde.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C++ exception handling and non Linux platforms Message-ID: <39256080.73EA747D@kde.org> References: <20000519083947.A47819@sharmas.dhs.org>
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Arun Sharma wrote:
>
> Most non Linux platforms do not link in libgcc.a by default. libkhtml.so
> uses exception handling. So it has undefined references to __eh_rtime_match
> etc.
>
> A stand alone binary like konqueror or khelpcenter does not have libgcc.a
> linked in the current build system. Therefore, they crash at runtime,
> when they dlopen(3) libkhtml.so and do not find __eh_rtime_match.
>
> I've found that linking such executables with -lgcc -Wl,-export-symbols
> fixes the problem. Can someone make the right changes to the build
> system for this ?
>
It's not that easy to do it right. But the new libtool (which is not yet
in our HEAD branch) has support for all kind of weired platform/compilers,
so you can do that. I'm collecting votes to put the instability issues
that come with the new libtool - and I count yours in :)
Greetings, Stephan
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