Re: GCC 2.95.x: Major problems on Solaris (was: Lost specific.html FAQEntry)

[Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>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.

It has been a "known problem" for years. The _original_ problem 
was GNU ld not honouring LD_RUN_PATH nor -R or equivalent. 
IIRC the exact problem has varied over the years.

There was a version around binutils-2.8.? when it did work, but it was too 
hard for us to explain to the clueless that they needed to install 
new binutils and possibly re-build gcc. (Lots of comparitively clueless
want to build and use perl.)

Now that GNU ld actually gains something (at least for C++) it is 
worth taking the time to figure it out.

>If people
>think it would help, I can try it again in a few days and put together a
>fuller problem report.  

Copy to perl5-porters@perl.org too - at very least Configure will 
probably need tweaks to command line stuff.

>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.
-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons