Bug 23342

Summary:	(libtool bug? info needed) NetBSD nm recognized incorrectly
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Thomas Klausner <tk>
Component:	tp-glib	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	low	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	NetBSD
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Description Thomas Klausner 2009-08-16 10:56:16 UTC

Build fails with:
gmake[3]: Entering directory `/scratch/chat/telepathy-glib/work/telepathy-glib-0.7.33/telepathy-glib'
link -dump -symbols .libs/libtelepathy-glib-internal.a > _gen/abi.nm
usage: link file1 file2

It seems NM is wrongly defined:
ac_cv_prog_NM='link -dump -symbols'

configure says:
checking for nm... link -dump -symbols
I don't know why it gets that idea.

I can override it by giving "NM=nm" as configure argument.

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2009-08-17 04:56:04 UTC

This looks like a problem with libtool (whose detection of nm we're using); sorry, someone who uses NetBSD will have to debug this.

The relevant section of config.log might have useful information as to why libtool's code doesn't like your nm implementation.

Comment 2 Simon McVittie 2010-09-13 03:39:47 UTC

Is this reproducible?

What does config.log say?

How does libtool normally list symbols (e.g. for the -export-symbols-regex feature) under NetBSD?

Comment 3 Thomas Klausner 2010-09-14 16:49:03 UTC

I've just tried again with 0.11.11 (I know, not the latest), and it seems the problem is fixed:
configure:4885: checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)
configure:4934: result: /usr/bin/nm -B
configure:5052: checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface
configure:5059: cc -std=gnu99 -c -O2 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/pk
g/include/python2.6 -I/usr/X11R7/include -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -I/us
r/pkg/include/python2.6 -I/usr/X11R7/include conftest.c >&5
configure:5062: /usr/bin/nm -B "conftest.o"
configure:5065: output
0000000000000000 B some_variable
configure:5072: result: BSD nm
...
configure:12677: checking for nm
configure:12704: result: /usr/bin/nm -B
...
ac_cv_prog_NM='/usr/bin/nm -B'

Thanks to whoever fixed it in the meantime!

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