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Re: Lost specific.html FAQ Entry


Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> Index: specific.html

>> <h3><a name="elf_targets">all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris, etc.)</a></h3>
>> 
>> <p>C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the GNU
>> linker; duplicate copies of inlines, vtables and template instantiations
>> will be discarded automatically.</p>

FYI, GNU ld from binutils 2.9.1 fails to successfully link Perl 5.005_03
on Solaris 2.6.  I haven't tried other versions of Solaris.  (Perl's hint
files try to keep you from using GNU ld on Solaris, saying that it won't
work correctly, and they are apparently entirely correct since overriding
that results in a non-functional Perl build.)

I was going to install gcc 2.95.1 here to use GNU ld on Solaris, given the
above note, but that was a sufficiently severe problem to cause me to drop
back to the vendor linker.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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