Re: ld and mozilla

[Hannah Schroeter <uk1o@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

Hello!

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 12:27:04AM -0800, David Terrell wrote:
> When I try to build mozilla I end up with the following error in 
> mozilla/xpcom/sample:
> /usr/bin/ld -Bshareable /usr/lib/c++rt0.o -o libsample.so.1.0    nsSample.o nsSampleModule.o     -L../../dist/bin -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -lpthread -L../../dist/bin -lxpcom -lutil -lm 
> ld: -lplds4: no match

> there is a libplds4.so in ../../dist/bin.  Is there something funky about
> ld that I need to make mozilla aware of?

Yes. Our ld needs a version number for shared objects, like
libplds4.so.3.7

(major dot minor)

The same problem appears with ACE(+TAO), however, there it's documented
in the install docs.

Regards, Hannah.