Current kaffe broken ?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 11, 1999, Maksim Lin <maksim at swin.edu.au> wrote:

> I've just checked out the current kaffe srcs out of the CVS, but I got a
> error while trying to build it of:

> -Wl,/usr/local/lib ../kaffevm/.libs/libkaffevm.so -lm -lm -lm -lm
> ./kaffevm/.libs/libkaffevm.so: undefined reference to `dlerror'
> ./kaffevm/.libs/libkaffevm.so: undefined reference to `dlclose'
> ./kaffevm/.libs/libkaffevm.so: undefined reference to `dlopen'
> ./kaffevm/.libs/libkaffevm.so: undefined reference to `dlsym'

This is odd...  libkaffevm.so should have been linked with -dl,
because it was linked with libltdl.la.  What does libltdl.la contain?
What about libkaffevm.la?

> BTW I have old versions of automake & autoconf dtected, but the error
> messages from configure said that this would only be a problem if I
> wanted to change the srcs, which I haven't (or have got this wrong too
> ?)

Yep, that's fine.

> I'd appreciate any pointers as I'm a bit confused by the whole
> autoconf/automake system.

Looks like everybody is :-)

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