Re: [PATCH] Add initializer for _nl_domain_bindings

[Bruno Haible]

Klee Dienes writes:
> Without an initializer, _nl_domain_bindings ends up declared as a 
> common symbol on Mac OS X systems, and prevents the use of libintl as a 
> dynamic library.  The appended patch initializes _nl_domain_bindings to 
> NULL.

You mean to say, it is impossible for a shared library (.dylib) on
MacOS X to have a nonempty BSS section?

If that is the case, Apple should better fix their runtime loader.
Shared libraries with BSS are quite frequent (see appended listing
from a Linux machine).

If not, then can you please tell the error message that you saw when
building libintl? It might be a problem in libtool; we need to sort
that out. Of course, you alse need to tell the compiler which you used.

Bruno


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