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From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke)
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Subject: Re: Binding libs...
To: joerg.plewe@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de (J.Plewe)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:55:11 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <9406220900.AA03601@dl.mpi-dortmund.mpg.de> from "J.Plewe" at Jun 22, 94 11:00:10 am
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> Using the load-command postgres either complains too few symbols,
> when I have not linked circle.o with my lib;
> or it complains about multiple defined symbols.
> 
> The problem I think is that some libs use symbols already used 
> with postgres; in my case e.g. 'circf' and others.

[...]

There is no easy answer to your question.  A few possibilities:

- If only a few symbols are in your way, write sed scripts, which
  replace them with something different.  Eg.:

	s/\(^|[^a-zA-Z_0-9]\)circf\($|[^a-zA-Z_0-9]\)/PG_&/g

  and apply them to all affected files of the source tree.

- Get the "binutils" source code (from the GCC/src directory 
  of almost any linux ftp server) and hack the "strip" command
  so it allows to specify a set of symbol names, which should
  not be stripped.


Kai


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