Re: Odd linker errors

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 02:10:11 -0700
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:57:44AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >A number of ports are starting to fail with errors like:
> >
> >net/clusterit:
> >
> >
> >>cc -O -pipe -DCLUSTERS -o dsh dsh.o ../common/common.o
> >>dsh.o(.text+0x86): In function `main':
> >>: undefined reference to `malloc_options'
> >
> 
> The addition of files/patch-dsh-dsh.c seems to be triggering this.
> It appears to declare the 'malloc_options' symbol.  Looking at stdlib.h,
> the real name should be '_malloc_options' (and including stdlib.h is the
> better way to get this declaration).  This is also documented correctly
> in the malloc(2) manpage.

Ah, okay..I was checking 4.x's malloc(3), which says:

char * malloc_options;

> >net/mopd:
> >
> >
> >>file.o(.text+0x623): In function `GetAOutFileInfo':
> >>: undefined reference to `le32toh'
> >>file.o(.text+0x63b): In function `GetAOutFileInfo':
> >>: undefined reference to `le32toh'
> >
> 
> I can't reproduce this here.  However, netbooting a VAX probably isn't
> a terribly common occurrance these days.

I couldn't even find where it was calling le32toh.

Kris


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