Building Xercesperl on Tru64 5.1a

> > > So I made nm on the lib and I saw that this symbol was missing. But in 
> > > fact quite all symbols are missing. The lib is very small.
> > > 
> > > I checked the static libs used to build Xerces.so (tmp.a  
> > > blib/arch/auto/Handler/Handler.a).
> > > In tmp.a I found the missing symbol. This lib seems to be correct.
> > 
> > What is 'tmp.a'?  I have not seen that file created in any build of 
> > XML-Xerces.  I'm guessing this to be an issue with how MakeMaker is trying 
> > to build a perl shared object from C++ sources.
> 
> Huh. I have no idea what tmp.a is. 
This is a lib that is create from the Xerces.o file and then used with Handler.a to create the .so lib

> Christian, I would rerun the 'make' process  and send us the
> output. I'd like to see why tmp.a is getting made, and why Xerces.so
> doesn't have all the symbols it should.

Here is the result of the make command:

make[1]: Entering directory `/0/orsatti/XML-Xerces-2.3.0-2/Handler'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/0/orsatti/XML-Xerces-2.3.0-2/Handler'
g++   -c -I. -IHandler -I/usr/packages/include -w -DXML_USE_NATIVE_TRANSCODER -DXML_USE_INMEM_MESSAGELOADER -DXML_USE_PTHREADS -DXML_USE_NETACCESSOR_SOCKET -D_REENTRANT -DHAS_BOOL      -DVERSION=\"2.3.0-2\" -DXS_VERSION=\"2.3.0-2\"  -I/usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.0/lib/5.6.0/alpha-dec_osf/CORE  Xerces.C
Running Mkbootstrap for XML::Xerces ()
chmod 644 Xerces.bs
ar cr tmp.a Xerces.o
: tmp.a
LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/shlib:/usr/packages/lib" g++ -o blib/arch/auto/XML/Xerces/Xerces.so  -shared  -expect_unresolved -msym -std -s  -L/usr/local/lib -all tmp.a  blib/arch/auto/Handler/Handler.a  -lpthread -L/usr/packages/lib -lxerces-c 
chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/XML/Xerces/Xerces.so
cp Xerces.bs blib/arch/auto/XML/Xerces/Xerces.bs
chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/XML/Xerces/Xerces.bs

Xerces.so still empty.

But I manage create a correct Xerces.so lib.
to make it so, I take all the tmp.a and Handler.a
I de-assemble then (ar x) to get all .o file
Then I run ld by hand will the following command:
ld -o Xerces.so *.o -shared -lpthread /usr/packages/lib/libxerces-c.so.23.0
I had some stderr output but it created a Xerces.so that seems to work (at least with my code)

Thanks for your answer.

By the way, I need post some questions about using Xerces.pm. Is this list the right place or is there any other list ?

Take care

Christian