Very Computer

In an earlier posting to comp.os.linux.misc (which has expired on my
server but which Alta Vista found for me), Marco Masotti

Quote:> I'm trying to link against a static library for sybase support (from
> sybase.tgz, devlib.tgz at http://www.sybase.com)

Quote:> Can anyone please help how to link this kind of files, or should I
> consider it definetely corrupt?

  <cd where Sybase a.out-flavored libraries are>
  mkdir aout
  mv *.a aout
  for i in aout/*.a
  do
    objcopy --output-target=elf32-i386 --remove-leading-char $i
`basename $i`
  done

EXCEPT...  then the symbols seem to be found properly, but the linker
croaks before it's done:

  gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 6

There was a previous posting to comp.os.linux.development.apps by

to treat a similar problem;  in that case a.out libraries seemed to be
involved in the problem's history as well.  Is there some kind of BFD
translation bug or some linker fragility in the face of a whiff of
a.out-ness?  Color me baffled, so far.

(I realize that Sybase client libraries for Linux are supplied as an
unsupported favor to the community, but wouldn't it be swell if they'd
re-release 'em in ELF form?)

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  http://www.voicenet.com/~gray/sqsh.html

You can also find this package, along with a version of Sybperl
for Linux (probably a binary, you should be able to build Sybperl
from source on Linux), at:

  ftp://mudshark.sunquest.com/pub/ctlib-linux-elf/

Hope this helps,

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