HP-UX 11i December 2003 Release Notes

Programming
Miscellaneous
Chapter 15
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Miscellaneous
Transition Links Deprecated
deprecated for
September 2003
The “Upgrade” product which contains the transition links management tools will be
removed from the next HP-UX release. The transition links (tlinks) management tools
were intended to be temporary transition tools for application migration from HP-UX 9.
x to HP-UX 10.x file system layout. The following transition links management tools are
being deprecated and will become obsolete in post-HP-UX 11i v2 releases:
• tlinstall
• tllist
• tlremove
For the C-Dev-Tools.C-AUX fileset, the Transitions Links will not be replaced by
symbolic links. The files in question are in:
/opt/langtools/tlinks/C-AUX
They include cpp, cpp.ansi, lex, and yacc, as well as links to locales in
/opt/langtools/lib/nls/msg/. (These last two commands will be available if the
contents of the file /etc/PATH are included in your $PATH.)
For the C-ANSI-C.C fileset, the Transitions Links will not be replaced by symbolic links
except for cc. The files in question are in:
/opt/ansic/tlinks/C
They include cc, c89, and ccom. (The c89 command will be available if the contents of
the file /etc/PATH are included in your $PATH.)
Similarly for the C-ANSI-C.C-TOOLS fileset, the Transitions Links will not be replaced
by symbolic links. The files in question are in:
/opt/ansic/tlinks/C-TOOLS
They include cb, cflow, cxref, and lint.
Linker and Object File Tools (ld, crt0.o, dld.sl, libdld.sl, chatr,
and odump)
new at 11i
original release
The following list summarizes the changes to linker and object file tools. Details for
several of the linker changes follow the lists.
Linker Changes
• Incremental linking supported in 64-bit ld and elfdump.
• Unix 98 (32-bit dl()* calls) supported in libdld.sl and dld.sl.
• 32-bit Filtered shared libraries supported in ld, dld.sl and in odump.
• GProf 32-bit shared library supported in crt0.o and dld.sl.
• ld +filter option creates filtered shared libraries.