Re: Aieee! Need help with gmodule!

[Michael Lausch <mla gams co at>]

>>>>> "tl" == Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.net>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 2 Dec 1998 18:54:55 -0500 (EST)

tl> My apologies in advance that this is not a general-purpose GNOME question.
tl> I am trying to use gmodule in a project (www.dents.org for more info).
tl> I am compiling some shared objects which I hope to link into my system.

tl> When I run my test g_module program on one of my shared object files,
tl> I get the following error:

tl> % gmodule_test modules/constant_module.so
tl> ** ERROR **: modules/constant_module.so: ELF file's phentsize not the
tl> 	expected size
tl> aborting...
tl> %

tl> Since I can find no docs on gmodule, I have no idea if I am doing anything
tl> at all right.  Would whoever in this crowd is knowledgeable concerning
tl> gmodule mind looking this over and offering me what advice they can?

tl> I compile my objects this way:

tl> 	gcc -shared  -fpic -DPIC -c \
tl> 		`/opt/gnome/bin/glib-config --cflags` -I.. \
tl> 		$file -o ${file%.c}.so

Just a wild guess:

drop the -shared flag when compiling a file. Use it only when
linking some -fpic compiled files into a shared library.

not correct, but i hope you get it:
gcc -fpic -DPIC .... $file -o -o ${file%.c}.lo
gcc -shared -i module.so *.lo
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