load fails to load a .so file on Solaris/Sparc with Tcl 8.5Hi

Hi,

I downloaded the sources for Tcl/Tk 8.5.2 a couple of days ago because I wanted to upgrade the application we are developing from using Tcl/Tk 8.4 to 8.5.

Our application loads several dynamic libraries (.so files in most Unix systems) from Tcl using the load command. Unfortunatel, for the Solaris (for Sparc) version, I get an error from Tcl 8.5.

In fact, I found that I am unable to load any .so file on Solaris from Tcl 8.5, even a simple dummy one that just has one dummy procedure in it:

% load [file join . foo.so]
couldn't load file "./foo.so": ld.so.1: /homes/kish/TclTk/sparc_sunos5/bin/tclsh8.5: fatal: relocation error: file ./foo.so: symbol main: referenced symbol not found

This is the same error (missing main symbol) as the one I get from the actual .so files I want to load.

I am able to load the dynamic libraries for other platforms (I have tried Linux, both 32 and 64 bits, x86) with Tcl 8.5, and for all platforms with Tcl 8.4.

I did an nm on the so files, and it seems all the .so files in Solaris have an undefined main in them (U main), but this was not a problem for 8.4, and I certainly did not intend to have a main procedure in a library file.

Any ideas what the problem might be, and how I could work around/fix it?

Thanks in advance for any information!

--Kish Shen
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