9. Broken Glass (Autsch)

9.1 Broken functionality on the open source side

The following things are currently broken in the C++ cross compiler for Netware:

• i386-netware-strip breaks NLMs. Use the -s linker switch as a workaround if you need a stripped binary.
• Using -ggdb extended debugging breaks debugging. -g works.
• gdbserve.nlm cannot be compiled for a libc environment.
• gdbserve.nlm works unreliable.
• Most NLMs from a different compiler cannot be specified directly on the link command line, the import list .imp file has to be specified instead.
• The GNU Fortran compiler does not compile for Netware.

9.2 Broken functionality on the Netware side

• The required libc files are stored in an installer in a way making it completely impossible to unpack them from a Linux box. An additional download in .zip or .tar.gz format would be very useful.
• ``Undocumened'' functions such as mmap should be marked with something like

        #ifdef UNDOCUMENTED
        void *mmap(...)
        #endif
  

  So we have a chance to make configure type stuff work reasonably.
• The file math.h uses __complex as a structure type name, but gcc considers this a reserved keyword. The current patch creates a changed version of the header file using the fixheaders approach.
• Marking NLMs as Multi-Threading safe requires a file that can only be created by a Windows program.

  http://developer.novell.com/support/sample/tids/txdc1/txdc1.htm