C++ templates and Oracle OCI on SPARC

Has anyone seen this problem before?

We're using Sun's SPARCCompiler C++ 3.0.1 to build a C++ program that uses the Oracle OCI library. The release version of this compiler could not handle C++ templates in libraries (static or shared).

I got a patch for the compiler, patch# 100967-06. This appears to fix the template problem, but now the compiler is have trouble with the Oracle libraries.

At link time, I'm getting the following errors:

nm: /usr/local/oracle/lib/libsqlnet.a:(osnpop.o): no name list
nm: /usr/local/oracle/lib/libsqlnet.a:(osntei.o): no name list
nm: /usr/local/oracle/lib/libsqlnet.a:(osntxo.o): no name list
nm: /usr/local/oracle/lib/libsqlnet.a:(osnt3n.o): no name list
nm: /usr/local/oracle/lib/libsqlnet.a:(snlm.o): no name list
nm: /usr/local/oracle/lib/libsqlnet.a:(nttost.o): no name list
nm: /usr/local/oracle/lib/libsqlnet.a:(ntt3n.o): no name list

There's a similar bunch of errors for the libora.a and libnetwork.a libraries; after dumping out the error messages, the compile hangs.

These errors never appeared when compiling with the pre-patch version of the compiler.

I haven't been able to find any documentation for the 'no name list' error message. 'ptlink' is Sun's template processing module (it's a cfront compiler), and it appears that it's searching through the libraries for something and is having trouble with the Oracle libraries, but since this is also undocumented I have no idea what it's trying to do.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

-Jason

   Jason W. May						jmay_at_ctp.com
   CTP, Inc.   304 Vassar St.   Cambridge MA 02139     (617)374-8223


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