Re: Mac OS X port of CLN

[Richard B. Kreckel]

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.

> 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.  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.

Hoping...
     -richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
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