Re: Mac OS X port of CLN

[Paul Kienzle]

On Feb 22, 2004, at 6:19 PM, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> > The symbol _R is causing problems.  Some header must be
> > defining it as a constant.  I've replace _R with inR in:
> >
> >         modinteger/*.h
> >         numtheory/cl_nt_sqrtmodp.cc
>
> That's fixed along with the missing random source implementation in
> CLN-1.1.6.

There is no 1.1.6 on the download mirror sites mentioned on
http://www.ginac.de/CLN/.  It's available on the master site
though.

> > Now all the source compiles, but link fails with:
> >
> > d: cl_prin_globals.lo has external relocation entries in non-writable
> > section (__TEXT,__StaticInit) for symbols:
> > cl_module__cl_prin_globals__dtorend
> > cl_module__cl_prin_globals__ctorend
> > /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
> >
> > Looking into this I've come across CL_PROVIDE and CL_PROVIDE_END
> > which appear to require assembler and which are not defined for _ppc_.
> > Somebody else will have to tackle this one.
>
> Sure they are defined for __ppc__, see include/cln/modules.h.

I don't know how I missed it.  Yes, indeed, it is there.

>   Anyway, it
> works on Linux on PPC.  The problem is with the linker on OS X.  As I
> mentioned, somebody with good knowledge of the linker needs to fix 
> this.

Sorry, I'm not plugged into the GiNaC mailing lists.  I'm also not
much of an expert on OS X linkers, but I'll try again.

Thanks,

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden



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