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Re: Problem compiling Klyx 0.9.11 with egcs 1.1.2 (Solaris-sparc-2.6)


On Apr 22, 1999, James Tappin <sjt@star.sr.bham.ac.uk> wrote:

> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/cc6GJM7A.s", line 4985: error: can't compute value of an expression involving an external symbol

> There was no problem on Linux (egcs 1.1.1 and libc 5.44) so it's
> clearly architecture-dependent.

You'd probably have more luck using GNU as.  Solaris' as seems to flag
this error whenever very long symbol names, typically generated for
templates, are used.  See the FAQ for details.

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