SunOS shared lib problem

[Kaleb Keithley]

I thought I'd ask this in comp.sys.sun, but we don't seem to have it
for some reason.  Anyway....

We had a strange problem that we ran into here while building X11R4 and 
Motif 1.1 under SunOS 4.1.  I decided that I wanted the shared libraries 
compiled with optimizing, and the static libraries compiled with debugging 
turned on so that I could debug in Motif.  So I hacked on the Makefiles 
to generate the required objects and libraries.

The problem arose while when we tried to dbx our applications; dbx
would start to read the symbol table, then proceed to dump core.  Given
that the problem only manifested itself after I rebuilt the libraries,
I redid the libraries such that both static and dynamic libraries
were optimized, and the problem went away.

Thus, in order to debug, I ended up building three libraries, where the
third static, debug library has a different name, i.e. libXm_d.a.

Can someone who knows, explain why dbx needs both the static and dynamic
libraries to be the "same"?  Does dbx use symbols in the static to
resolve the dynamic?

advaTHANKSnce

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Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
kaleb at thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

causing trouble again.