[geos-devel] Re: [postgis-users] Error compiling PostGIS + GEOS

[strk at refractions.net]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:41:36AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
...
> Could you write a script using 'nm' that would find the symbol, e.g. the
> following works but is not recursive (you could probably solve this with
> some bash scripting):
> 
> nm --dynamic /usr/lib/* | grep '__builtin_new'

# find <root> -type f -name '*so' | xargs nm --print-file-name --dynamic 2> /dev/null | grep __builtin_new

I find many 'U'ndefined, few 'T'ext (libflashplayer) and 'W'eak symbols,
one of which in libstdc++

/usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.1-2-2.10.0.so:000264b0 W __builtin_new

No symbols in my GCC 3.4.3 root!

--strk;