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Re: latest snapshot fails to build libobjc.so on Solaris
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:59:10AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> > > libobjc.so builds OK on i686-pc-linux-gnu, which is ELF. (Now
> > > that doesn't mean that something isn't broken).
> >
> > It doesn't mean much since the GNU linker, which i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > uses, may handle many things which the Solaris linker refuses to
> > at the price of reduced performance/feature.
>
> Ah, so you're saying that non-PIC code is being emitted even though PIC
> is specified, and this makes some linkers barf but not others?
Something like that.
>
> Can you narrow the problem down? (e.g. provide a small coding example
> that makes non-PIC code).
It has been a long time and I know nothing about Objective-C :-). But
if someone is going to fix the Objective-C compiler, I will see what
I can help.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)