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Re: an installation bug in either gcc, gld, or readline -- I don't know which
>> Ah, that's interesting. So I guess I could try changing my PATH to put
>> /bin/ld ahead of /usr/gnu/bin/ld when installing readline and see what happens.
Phil> My guess would be: Bad Things.
Phil> The -shared option, among others, /is/ translated by the compiler driver into
Phil> linker-specific options. One of the most common bug reports we get occurs
Phil> when Solaris users configure GCC to use {Sun,GNU} linkers and assemblers,
Phil> but at runtime "the other one" is actually found.
That makes sense. Sigh.
Phil> Ideally, readline and suchlike need to ask GCC "hey, what linker are you
Phil> using?" and GCC needs to answer in a portable way. Right now this isn't
Phil> possible at either end. Hmmm...
Phil> I think I ended up installing two copies of GCC on my Solaris boxes:
Phil> the default uses GNU backend tools, and for those packages which care,
Phil> another copy uses only Sun tools.
Ouch! Surely there must be an easier way.
>> It's a mountain pass in Norway named Trollstigveien. It is even more
>> astonishing in person than in the photo.
Phil> Thanks! (Boy, our guess was so wrong...)
What was your guess?
Regards,
Andrew Koenig