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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:32:16 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 Port error in mpvecadd-Darwin.s on Leopard
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On Oct 31, 2007 12:05 PM, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> the problem comes from libmp: the machine-dependent files written in
> assembly (/src/libmp/386/*-Darwin.s) are causing it (and they are all
> broken, not just the one reported). it's beyond me to figure out why
> at the moment. i tried a couple of things at random, but that's not a
> way to fix a problem.
>
> all the functions defined therein have a replacement written in C in
> the port/ directory of libmp. a workaround for now will be to fix the
> mkfile in port/ to not look for the machine-dependent files (comment
> out the test in the reduce script and let it just echo all file
> names).
>
> next bug is all the way to venti:
>
> 9l -o o.buildindex buildindex.o libvs.a /Users/andrey/plan9/lib/libventi.a
> ld: in libvs.a, archive has no table of contents
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
ranlib to the rescue... Got it run it explicitly on Darwin.  I think
gcc lets you get away without it on linux.

Dave