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1.1       root        1: From: coho!daveg (Dave Gagne)
                      2: Subject: Re: Problems with building emacs on SunOS 4.0 (EXPORT)
                      3: Summary: SunOS 4.0_Export "cc -Bstatic" don't work.
                      4: Organization: UBC Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Vancouver, Canada
                      5: 
                      6: > Has anyone else seen similar problems?
                      7: 
                      8: Yes indeed.  Anyone who does not live in the jolly US of A.
                      9: 
                     10:   What you are encountering is a screw-up in SunOS 4.0_Export.  This
                     11: problem only occurs in the "EXPORT" version of SunOS 4.0: ie the
                     12: software which Sun ships outside of the USA.  The problem has something
                     13: to do with Sun not wanting to ship their DES chips outside of the good
                     14: 'ole USA.  What we poor foreigners get instead is some buggered up
                     15: software.
                     16: 
                     17:   What all this means is that "cc -Bstatic ..." WILL NOT WORK ON SUNOS
                     18: 4.0 EXPORT without a little help from "ar".  The static C-library is
                     19: /lib/libc.a, and this is where the problem occurs.  There are a bunch of
                     20: .o files in there relating to DES stuff (des_crypt.o, des_soft.o, _crypt.o,
                     21: etc).  All of them will case cc -Bstatic to die as you found with the
                     22: errors:
                     23: 
                     24: > _edata: ld: user attempt to redefine loader-defined symbol
                     25: > _end: user attempt to redefine loader-defined symbol
                     26: > _etext: /lib/libc.a(des_crypt.o): multiply defined
                     27: 
                     28:   In order to make cc -Bstatic useful, you must remove all the
                     29: brain-damaged .o files from /lib/libc.a.  To do this use
                     30: 
                     31:   ar d /lib/libc.a des_crypt.o des_soft.o _crypt.o ....
                     32: 
                     33: (Make a backup of /lib/libc.a first, you may decide you need the "real"
                     34: thing someday).  Note that there are a bunch of these files, I can't
                     35: remember all of them.  You will find them quick enough by trying to
                     36: compile ANY C program, even one which does NOTHING.
                     37: 
                     38:   After you have done this, Emacs should compile OK.  I was able to get
                     39: both the "normal" text version and the X-windows (X11R2) version to 
                     40: compile OK.  It seems to me that the Suntools version may not have worked,
                     41: but I may just be halucinating.

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