Re: --enable-shared doesn't work on Sun-3

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

Hi Kate !

skink% more config.status
#!/bin/sh
# This file was generated automatically by configure.  Do not edit.
# This directory was configured as follows:
configure  
--with-gcc-version-trigger=/usr/export/home/kate/egcs-19980803/gcc/version.c  
--host=m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1 --enable-shared --with-gnu-as
              ^^^^
--with-gnu-ld --norecursion
# using "mh-frag" and "mt-frag"

>  I am using binutils 2.9.1.  I have been having no trouble
>  with egcs with static libraries.  However, a build of
>  perl with egcs died in about the same way when it builds
>  its dynamically loadable pieces.

>  Here is how egcs fails:

>  /usr/tmp/cc6ECDC7.s:2388: Error: operands mismatch --
>  statement `jbsr _demangle_template_template_parm,a1'
>  ignored

Yep, this is basically the same problem I ran into back in May,  
when egcs erroneously assumed I wanted to build it --enable-shared.

Apparently compiling with -fpic doesn't work on m68k's ...

Hope this helps,
Toon.