Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 14:44:24 +0100 (MET)
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject: Re: ld problems
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (user alias)
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>

> 
> > 
> > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de writes:
> > >
> > > Lately I've run into much trouble using djgpp 1.12m3:
> > > 
> > > ld works very unreliable. Symbols are not found although
> > > nm shows them explicitly in the .o files.

I must correct myself. It was either a corrupt .o files for whatever
reasons or another woodoo effect. I recompiled the said files
and it is now working. I also reduced the symbold count by
using ld -r -x -o file.out file.o ; mv file.out file.o technique.

With this latter method however I must say that ld 252 is really
broken. I claims by issueing myriads of symbols to be in .bss/.data

> > > 
> > > Also ar/ranlib behaves very strange when run in a DOS box under Win96,
> >                                                                   ^^^^^
> > 								   ;-)
> > 

This behaviour is repeatable but it seems that it only
happens when the Win95 redirector is active. I pulled out
my network card yesterday for other reasons and found that the ranlib
suddenly worked. Today I had the network running again and
again, when I do a

ar qv libf77.a *.o
ranlib libf77.a 

I get access denied from ranlib. (a file truncation problem when the
Win95 redirector is loaded?).

> > > i.e. using DPMI while it works ok in normal DOS7 (Win booted in DOS mode).
> > > ar/ranlib die on access denied on the .a file they are working on.
> > 
> > 
> > Hello Chris,
> > 
> > Did you also try a DOS box under 'good old' Windows 3.1 ?

To difficult to get a Win3.11/Win3.1 system also running on my machine
and no similar system in vicinity at the moment.

> > 
> > I had this error too, once.
> > The problem was with the number of files in my CONFIG.SYS file.
> > When I increased the number of files (FILES=20) to (FILES=40) all worked.
> 
> I just looked and had FILES=80 in my config.sys anyway.
> 
> > 
> > Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)
> > 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
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