DBD::Sybase and Sybase::CTlib build problems w/ 5.8.1, Solaris, gcc 3.x

From: Michael Peppler (mpeppler_at_peppler.org)
Date: 10/16/03

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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:04:16 -0700

    FYI DBD::Sybase and Sybase::CTlib fail at the "make test" stage on
    Solaris (and possibly other platforms) with perl 5.8.1 and gcc 3.x.

    The problem is the default LDDLFLAGS configuration value that is used
    with 5.8.1, which includes the following flags:
            -z ignore -z lazyload -z combreloc

    For some reason these linker flags cause Sybase's -ltcl to NOT get
    linked in to the .so file, with the result that DBD::Sybase and
    Sybase::CTlib fail to load with relocation errors when trying to load
    Sybase's libct.so (I've seen symbols "com_tds_maptoken" and
    "dcl_result_drop" mentioned in the error message).

    I'm going to try to figure out why these -z flags inhibit linking
    Sybase's libtcl.so, but in the meantime the work-around is to edit the
    Makefile after running "perl Makefile.PL" and remove the offending
    entries from the LDDLFLAGS macro.

    Michael 

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