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Howto add HP-UX SOM object file support

tippa123@gmail.com tippa123@gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 04:15:00 GMT 2007 
On 6/4/07, Steve Ellcey <sje@cup.hp.com> wrote:
> > I have compiled binutils-2.17 for both HP-UX Itanium (B.11.23) and
> > HP-UX PA-RISC 2.0 (B.11.11 ). But there is no support for (old) HP-UX
> > SOM object file format, for example "nm" do not understand files which
> > are " PA-RISC1.1 shared library -not stripped".
> >
> > I think I must add some target to the configure's "--enable-targets="
> > option... But what is the correct one?
> > Could you please help me with this issue, thanks a lot!
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Tippa
>
> If you built on a PA-RISC box then I am surprised that nm wouldn't
> understand the SOM files since that is the default format for HP-UX
> PA-RISC boxes when you are in 32 bit mode.  In 64 bit mode it would use
> ELF, but you should only get 64 bit mode if you explicity ask for it.
> (i.e.  use target of hppa64-hp-hpux11.11).  If you are building on
> PA-RISC I would try using a host/build/target of hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11 or
> hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11.  If you are building on Itanium, you could use
> one of those targets with the --enable-targets option.
>
> What error do you get when run nm on an unstripped shared library?  When
> I run a 2.17 nm on one of the HPPA HP-UX 11.11 system libraries in
> /usr/lib I do not get any errors.
>
> Steve Ellcey
> sje@cup.hp.com
>

Hi Steve,
   and thanks for your comment! Here you can see the errror message.
Note also what the "nm --help" shows below. Regards Tippa.

tippa@hp11idev> uname -a
HP-UX hp11idev B.11.11 U 9000/800 2252141562 unlimited-user license
tippa@hp11idev>
tippa@hp11idev> nm --version
GNU nm 2.17
Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
tippa@hp11idev>
tippa@hp11idev> file /usr/lib/libm.sl
/usr/lib/libm.sl:       PA-RISC1.1 shared library -not stripped
tippa@hp11idev> nm /usr/lib/libm.sl
nm: /usr/lib/libm.sl: File format not recognized
tippa@hp11idev>

 And "nm --help" shows:
nm: supported targets: elf64-hppa elf64-hppa-linux elf64-little
elf64-big elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex
hpux-core
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