RE: solaris, collect2 and ld

[Drury Tim <Tim_Drury at bscc dot bls dot com>]

Hello all,

Anthony posted this problem for me over here at egcs-bugs;
I'm trying to build the java runtime (libgcj).  If you have
a reply to this message (and I hope you do) could you CC:
my email address since I'm not on this list?  Thnx...

> collect2 never looks at the PATH on Solaris2, because /usr/ccs/bin is
> listed in the programs search path.  There are two ways to 
> avoid using 
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld on Solaris:
> 
> 1) configure --with-ld=/the/wanted/ld
> 2) ln -s /the/wanted/ld 
> /path/to/gcc/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris*/*/real-ld

Option #2 is probably out since other folks are using the Solaris
linker and I don't want to introduce possible problems.

I tried running configure with --with-gnu-ld, but during build
/usr/ccs/bin/ld was still used.  In fact, I took /usr/ccs/bin/
out of my path and _still_ that linker was used, but this makes
sense if collect2 has some other search path is uses.  The option
"--with-ld=/some/linker" I have not seen before.  I'll give it
a try but I thought --with-gnu-ld would force it to use the
gnu linker.

> > Is there any trick to using the GNU linker instead of the system
> > one?  This situation ends up confusing libtool to no end.
> 
> How come?  libtool is supposed to detect whether the linker used by
> gcc is GNU ld or not.  Are you playing -Bdir/ tricks on it or what?

_I'm_ not playing any tricks.  I'm following the directions to
build libgcj.  These are the two configurations I tried:


aries:/users/tim> ../libgcj-snapshot-1999-06-02/configure 
--prefix=/backup/tim/egcs-1999.06.02 --enable-java-gc=boehm 
--enable-fast-character --enable-threads=posix 
--disable-shared --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld
 
and this:
 
aries:/users/tim> ../libgcj-snapshot-1999-06-02/configure 
--prefix=/backup/tim/egcs-1999.06.02 --enable-java-gc=boehm 
--enable-fast-character --enable-threads=posix --disable-shared

< --with-gnu-as and -with-gnu-ld removed >

And I end up with this error after issuing "gmake":

> 
> < lots of stuff deleted >
> creating libgcj.la
> (cd .libs && rm -f libgcj.la && ln -s ../libgcj.la libgcj.la)
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcj -g    -o jv-convert 
> --main=gnu.gcj.convert.Convert -rpath 
> /backup/tim/egcs-1999.06.02/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/lib  
> gnu/gcj/convert/BytesToUnicode.lo gnu/gcj/convert/Convert.lo 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Input_8859_1.lo 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Input_EUCJIS.lo 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Input_JavaSrc.lo 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Input_SJIS.lo gnu/gcj/convert/Input_UTF8.lo 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Output_8859_1.lo 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Output_EUCJIS.lo 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Output_JavaSrc.lo 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Output_SJIS.lo gnu/gcj/convert/Output_UTF8.lo 
> gnu/gcj/convert/UnicodeToBytes.lo libgcj.la 
> ./../boehm-gc/libgcjgc.la 
> -L/backup/tim/libgcj-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/libjava/../boe
> hm-gc/.libs -lpthread -lposix4 ./../zlib/libzgcj.la 
> -L/backup/tim/libgcj-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/libjava/../zli
> b/.libs -L/backup/tim/libgcj-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/libjava/.libs 
> gcj -g -o jv-convert --main=gnu.gcj.convert.Convert 
> gnu/gcj/convert/BytesToUnicode.o gnu/gcj/convert/Convert.o 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Input_8859_1.o gnu/gcj/convert/Input_EUCJIS.o 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Input_JavaSrc.o gnu/gcj/convert/Input_SJIS.o 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Input_UTF8.o gnu/gcj/convert/Output_8859_1.o 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Output_EUCJIS.o 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Output_JavaSrc.o 
> gnu/gcj/convert/Output_SJIS.o gnu/gcj/convert/Output_UTF8.o 
> gnu/gcj/convert/UnicodeToBytes.o .libs/libgcj.a 
> ./../boehm-gc/.libs/libgcjgc.a 
> -L/backup/tim/libgcj-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/libjava/../boe
> hm-gc/.libs
> -lpthread -lposix4 ./../zlib/.libs/libzgcj.a 
> -L/backup/tim/libgcj-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/libjava/../zli
> b/.libs 
> -L/backup/tim/libgcj-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/libjava/.libs 
>  -Wl,--rpath 
> -Wl,/backup/tim/egcs-1999.06.02/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/lib 
> -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/backup/tim/egcs-1999.06.02/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/lib
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- -
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- p
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- -
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- p
> ld: warning: option -h appears more than once, first setting taken
> usage: ld [-abd:e:f:h:il:mo:rstu:z:B:D:F:GI:L:M:N:Q:R:S:VY:] file(s)
> 	[-a]		create an absolute file
> 	[-b]		do not do special PIC relocations in a.out
> 	[-d y|n]	operate in dynamic|static mode
> 	[-e sym]	use `sym' as entry point address
> 	[-f name]	specify library for which this file is 
> an auxiliary
> 			filter
> 	[-h name]	use `name' as internal shared object identifier
> 	[-i]		ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting
> 	[-l x]		search for libx.so or libx.a
> 	[-m]		print memory map
> 	[-o outfile]	name the output file `outfile'
> 	[-r]		create a relocatable object
> 	[-s]		strip any symbol and debugging information
> 	[-t]		do not warn of multiply defined symbols 
> of different
> 			sizes
> 	[-u sym]	create an undefined symbol `sym'
> 	[-z absexec]	when building an exectutable absolute 
> symbols referenced in dynamic objects are
> promoted to the executable.
> 	[-z now]	mark object as requiring non-lazy binding
> 	[-z defs|nodefs]
> 			disallow|allow undefined symbols
> 	[-z direct]	specify 'direct' bindings for 
> executable when run
> 	[-z groupperm|nogroupperm]
> 			enable|disable setting of GROUP permissions
> 			on dynamic dependencies
> 	[-z ignore|record]
> 			ignore|record unused dynamic dependencies
> 	[-z initfirst]	mark object so the .init section
> 			of this object is executed before the 
> .init section
> 			of other objects
> 	[-z loadfltr]	mark filter as requiring immediate 
> loading of its
> 			filtees at runtime
> 	[-z interpose]
> 		dynamic object is to be an `interposer' on
> 		direct bindings
> 	[-z lazyload|nolazyload]
> 			enable|disable delayed loading of shared objects
> 	[-z muldefs]	allow multiply defined symbols
> 	[-z nodelete]	mark object as non-deletable
> 	[-z nodlopen]	mark object as non-dlopen()'able
> 	[-z noversion]	don't record any version sections
> 	[-z origin]	mark object as requiring $ORIGIN processing
> 	[-z redlocsym]	reduce local syms in .symtab to a minimum
> 	[-z text]	disallow output relocations against text
> 	[-z textwarn]	warn if there are relocations against text
> 	[-z textoff]	allow output relocations against text
> 	[-z weakextract]
> 			allow extraction of archive members to 
> resolve weak
> 			references
> 	[-z allextract]	extract all member files from archive files
> 	[-z defaultextract]
> 			extract member files from archive files
> 			which resolve undefined or tentative symbols
> 	[-z combreloc]	combine multiple relocation sections
> 	[-B dynamic|static]
> 			search for shared libraries|archives
> 	[-B group]	relocate object from within group
> 	[-B eliminate]	eliminate unqualified global
> 			symbols from the symbol table
> 	[-B local]	reduce unqualified global symbols to local
> 	[-B reduce]	process symbol reductions
> 	[-B symbolic]	bind external references to definitions 
> when creating
> 			shared objects
> 	[-B direct]	specify 'direct' bindings for 
> executable when run
> 	[-B translator]	specify that this object is to act as a 
> 'translator'
> 			for an application bound with -Bdirect
> 	[-D options]	print diagnostic messages
> 	[-F name]	specify library for which this file is a filter
> 	[-G]		create a shared object
> 	[-I interp]	use `interp' as path name of interpreter
> 	[-L path]	search for libraries in directory `path'
> 	[-M mapfile]	use processing directives contained in `mapfile'
> 	[-N file]	create a dynamic dependency on `file'
> 	[-Q y|n]	do|do not place version information in 
> output file
> 	[-R path]	specify a library search path to be 
> used at run time
> 	[-S name]	specify a link-edit support library
> 	[-V]		print version information
> 	[-Y P,dirlist]	use `dirlist' as a default path when 
> searching for
> 			libraries
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> gmake[2]: *** [jv-convert] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/backup/tim/libgcj-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/libjava'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/backup/tim/libgcj-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/libjava'
> gmake: *** [all-target-libjava] Error 2
> aries:/backup/tim/libgcj-obj>
> 

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