🚀 go-pugleaf

Yesterday we tried to port a large program from UNIX to OS/2
using GNU-C. Compiling was no problem (no changes required)
but the linker (link386) caused us crying (in pain).
* alot of symbols could not be resolved ... but they are defined
  in one of the modules (about 60) - if they were not the other
  linkers (several) on UNIX-machines would not be able to link
  that.
  ???? Perhaps one has to order the modules ... but a little test
       makes us believe thats not necessary
* some object files could not be found ... but they are all in
  the same directory ... especially link386 does not find any
  of the standard libs ... which it can find while linking smaller
  examples
  ???? No idea how to solve this
* an the most annoying one: the link386 seems to convert all 
  of the identifiers to lowercase ... which caused several
  multiple-defined-errors ... i.e. we defined a free of our own
  naming it FREE (which seemed to be natural to us) ... just that
  small program
   void f(){}
   void F(){}
   main(){f();F();}
  could not be linked due to _f been multiply defined. Examining
  the object file shows the correct (uppercase and lowercase) 
  identifiers.
  ???? I cannot believe that we have to reprogramm the whole
       stuff and forget about case sensitive identifiers.
We have no docs for link386 - just doing it by "imagination" and
"experience" ... maybe there's the one or the other switch which solves
all this mess. Any advices, flames, etc.?

Joern (University of Bremen/Germany)
aspect@sun1g.informatik.Uni-Bremen.de