Re: difference between default behaviour of GNU nm and AIX nm (symbol demangling)

[Laurent Vivier]

"Boehne, Robert" wrote:
> 
OK, thank you,

I'm sorry, I checked only 1.4.2 (stable) and the correction is in 1.4d
(alpha).
(but it seems to not appear in Changelog)

Laurent

> Hello all,
> 
> CVS Libtool already does this, setting -C only when appropriate.
> 
> <SNIP>
>   aix4* | aix5*)
>     # If we're using GNU nm, then we don't want the "-C" option.
>     # -C means demangle to AIX nm, but means don't demangle with GNU
> nm
>     if $NM -V 2>&1 | egrep '(GNU)' > /dev/null; then
>       _LT_AC_TAGVAR(export_symbols_cmds, $1)='$NM -Bpg $libobjs
> $convenience | awk '\''{ if (((\[$]2 == "T") || (\[$]2 == "D") ||
> (\[$]2 == "B")) && ([substr](\[$]3,1,1) != ".")) { print \[$]3 } }'\''
> | sort -u > $export_symbols'
>     else
>       _LT_AC_TAGVAR(export_symbols_cmds, $1)='$NM -BCpg $libobjs
> $convenience | awk '\''{ if (((\[$]2 == "T") || (\[$]2 == "D") ||
> (\[$]2 == "B")) && ([substr](\[$]3,1,1) != ".")) { print \[$]3 } }'\''
> | sort -u > $export_symbols'
>     fi
>     ;;
> <SNIP>
> 
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