Problem:

A customer has migrated to Server Express SuSE SLES 9 X86_64 from OCDS and is re-linking their application.  They receive the following error regarding a file BS.o

cob32: error reading: BS.o

Resolution:

This is a portability issue and actually related to more than just the one object file.  The first file to be processed threw the error.  

On examination, the object origin was from a different chipset; MIPS ELF not INTEL ELF.

# cob -xve "" -o myrts BS.o

cob32 -C nolist -xve  -o myrts BS.o

cob32: error reading: BS.o

# file BS.o

BS.o: ELF 32-bit MSB MIPS-I relocatable, MIPS, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

Using the locking demo:

# file stockioa.o

stockioa.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

# cob -xve "" -o myrts stockioa.o

cob32 -C nolist -xve  -o myrts stockioa.o

Entry points defined in module: stockioa.o

        stockioa

        STOCKIOA