Re: modules!??

[<hzoli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (Zoltan T. Hidvegi)]

Zefram wrote:
> >The nm output format varies from system to system, so it's probably hard to
> >make it portable.  And one should not have to have nm to compile zsh.  But
> >if we can automatize everything on Linux I'd be happy.
>
> There is one format for nm that is overwhelmingly common (BSD in origin,
> perhaps?).  A script could detect whether the local nm conforms to this
> convention, and if so will have the capability to generate these symbol
> lists.  (As the GNU nm uses the popular format, I expect this will include
> all of our usual development systems.)  In case there isn't an appropriate
> nm around, we'd have to include the symbol lists in the distribution.

Of course AIX is always an exception )-:.

Zoltan