Re: Problems: Jade 1.2, nsgml, egcs, dynamic linking

[Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>]

On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:26:01PM -0400, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:
> > I tried to build jade 1.2 because the nsgml program in sp 1.3-1.1-5
> > segfaults.  Consequently, sgml2html and sgml2txt don't work.
> 
> Good luck...I've been working on this problem for over a month now...

Why did I know you'd say that?  :-)

> It's ok.  I know the message.  I'm trying to get an egcs snapshot packaged
> up (or really trying to get someone else to finish their work on it).  The
> new egcs fixes the internal compiler errors that we've been having,
> apparently.

Groovy.

> > nsgml is still broken in Jade 1.2.  However, I hacked together a static
> > version that *does* work.  Is there any chance this is the same binutils
> > bug that makes Qt fail?
> 
> I have a package for Qt on my ftp site for testing.  It was built with the
> new binutils, fyi, so if that was the problem, it should be fine.

I don't use Qt, but the symptoms sounded similar.  When I get a chance, I'll
see if the new binutils make the dynamically linked nsgml work.

> It was built with egcs-1.0.1, which is long gone.  I can probably go back
> and build a new one, but it will want to link to libstdc++2.8, which is
> suboptimal.

yep

Thanks

Jeff