[Gcl-devel] RE: On statically linked Axiom (was: static lisp and rpms)

[Page, Bill]

Camm,

When using the -enable-static option on configure under
RedHat Linux 8.0 and gcc 3.3.2 is it expected that the
gcl image be only about 180kbytes larger than without
the -enable-static option? Fram a 6 Mbyte image, this
seems like a surprizingly small change in size to me.

Cheers,
Bill Page.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Camm Maguire [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:56 PM
> To: Bill Page
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: On statically linked Axiom (was: static lisp and rpms)
> 
> 
> Greetings!  OK, thanks for the report -- I've just committed a fix in
> cvs 2.6.1 and head.  The patch is in two parts, one loads weak symbols
> as well as undefined symbols into the bfd symbol table, and the other
> maps the 't' and 'nil stream descriptors properly in optimized
> references to read-char.  These will be in the next stable and
> unstable release on the temp site.
> ... 
> > 
> > On Monday, October 20, 2003 11:45 PM Tim wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > The statically linked GCL image has a problem:
> > > 
> > > make file foo.lisp:
> > > 
> > > (defun test (st) (read-char st))
> > > 
> > > at lisp prompt:
> > > 
> > > >(compile-file "foo.lisp")
> > > >(load "foo.o")
> > > 
> > 
> > I tried this under Windows with GCL 2.6.1 which is statically
> > linked without readline by default (I think?). It worked fine.
> > 
> > So it seems that moving to 2.6.1, building with the new
> > .\configure --enable-static option and eliminating readline
> > might correct your static linking problem.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Bill Page.
> >