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Re: GCC 2.95.x: Major problems on Solaris (was: Lost specific.html FAQEntry)
- To: rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery)
- Subject: Re: GCC 2.95.x: Major problems on Solaris (was: Lost specific.html FAQEntry)
- From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 17:06:59 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Gerald Pfeifer), gcc@gcc.gnu.org
>
> Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
>
> > 5. Has someone experiencing these problems already submitted bug reports
> > to the binutils developers resp. Sun?
>
> I haven't, under the assumption that the hint file entry in Perl saying
> that GNU ld wouldn't work meant that this was a known problem. If people
> think it would help, I can try it again in a few days and put together a
> fuller problem report. Perl makes extensive use of dynamically loaded
> modules, and the symptom that I was seeing was that when all of Perl was
> linked with GNU ld, it couldn't load the dynamic modules that it had just
> built.
>
There are known bugs in binutils 2.9.1 on Solaris/Sparc. Quite a few
Solaris/Sparc bugs have been fixed in binutils in cvs.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)