Hello,

I'm having an odd problem where an executable fails to find a symbol
in a shared library. The missing symbol is the map of maps x3 seen
in the header below.

Using the exact same executable and library, the problem is only seen
on some of our machines. The 5.1 ML4 machine that it is compiled
on fails to load the object, another 5.1 and now a 5.3 base
level machine. But it runs on a 5.2 and other 5.3 ML1 machines.
This code has been around for a while and has only started showing
having rtl errors in recent builds.

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA

Gary Bak

Here is the last part of the error and the files below:

<...snip>
_5_Node_v was referenced
from module ./libtestShared.a(testShared.o), but a runtime
definition
of the symbol was not found.

rtld: 0712-002 fatal error: exiting.


--------------------File: testLib.h -------------------
#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

void test();

std::map<std::string, std::map<std::string, std::map<std::string,
std::vector<unsigned int> > > > mapCacheOffsetByConfigSectionAndKeyID;

--------------------File: testLib.cpp -------------------
#include "testLib.h"
void test()
{

}

--------------------File: main.cpp -------------------
#include "testLib.h"
main()
{
test();
}

--------------------File: Makefile -------------------
CPP = xlC_r
AR = ar

%.o: %.cpp
$(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) $(BUILD_OPTIONS) $(ADD_OPTIONS)
$(INCLUDE_PATH) $(ADD_INCLUDES) -c -o $@ $<

libtestLib.a: testLib.o
rm -f $@
$(AR) rcs $@ $<

testShared.o: libtestLib.a
$(LD) -r -o tmp.o -L. -ltestLib
$(CPP) -G -bernotok -qtwolink -qnamemangling=v5 -qmkshrobj
-bloadmap:loadmap.out -o$@ tmp.o

libtestShared.a: testShared.o
$(AR) -rv $@ $<

runme: main.o libtestShared.a
$(CPP) -brtl -qtwolink -bloadmap:loadmap.out -o$@ main.o -L. -l
testShared

all: runme
clean:
rm -f *.a *.o

> I'm having an odd problem where an executable fails to find a symbol
> in a shared library.

It looks to be an AIX problem. One of the 5.1 machines was upgraded to
5.3 ML 1 and the missing symbol error went away.

Gary