ld warning: PA 2.0 obect file

[Michael D. Zorn]

The warning is

ld: (Warning) At least one PA 2.0 object file (pgm.o) was detected. The linked output may not run on a PA 1.x system

I don't think I need to worry about that - there's only one machine here. Is there a way to suppress that warning?

We compile and link through the compiler, f90, with makefiles. The compile line is

f90 -o pgm pgm.o -lingres -lm

(-lingres is the database library)

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

You should be able to suppress this by adding the '+vnocompatwarnings' flag during linking.

That aside, this is only a warning and hence is advisory only.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

>JRF: this is only a warning and hence is advisory only.

Right. This warning was more important back in 1996 when PA2.0 was introduced. Now, most PA1.1 machines are no longer supported.

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

>>JRF: this is only a warning and hence is advisory only.

>Right. This warning was more important back in 1996 when PA2.0 was introduced. Now, most PA1.1 machines are no longer supported.

somewhere in my cellar, an A180C is silently weeping.

[Michael D. Zorn]

I found I could give it to f90 to hand off to the linker:

f90 -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings .....

and that other options (like -g) need to come after the -W

Thanks again.

[Dennis Handly]

>f90 -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings

Yes, that's how to pass linker specific options.

>that other options (like -g) need to come after the -Wl

I doubt there is any restriction on the ordering of this -Wl option. Just as long as it is passed to ld. You should be able to see this with -v.

[Michael D. Zorn]

My makefile line is
FFLAGS=-Wl,+vnocompatwarnings, -g


The reason I got an error message was that I had

FFLAGS=g, -Wl,......

No commas between options.... but seems OK at the end: , -g

[Dennis Handly]

>My makefile line is
FFLAGS=-Wl,+vnocompatwarnings, -g

You can't have commas in options, just whitespace. There is a comma after -Wl and between options for ld, etc.:
-Wl,-B,immediate

In the case of -Wx, each comma is replaced by a space.

[Michael D. Zorn]

The solutions provided did the trick.