Using GCC 3.0.4 on both Sun Solaris 8 and HP-UX 11.11 - Code compiles on Solaris 8 but not on HP-UX 11.11

[Paul Nakao <paul dot nakao at amdocs dot com>]

I am trying to compile various shareware code on Sun Solaris 8 (sparc) and HP-UX 11.11 

The three products I am trying to compile are:

UnixCppUnit v1.5
snmp++ v3.1.6c
xerces-c v4.0.1 (from IBM Alphaworks)

All the above products compile fine on Sun Solaris 8 using GCC 3.0.4 but they all fail with linker errors using the exact same GCC 3.0.4 compiler on HP-UX 11.11 

My guess is that there is a problem with the HP-UX linker because it is not likely that three different products fail similarly when all compile fine on a different platform.

I compiled GCC 3.0.4 for Sun Solaris 8 using:

./configure --prefix=/export/home/gcc/gcc-3.0.4 --exec-prefix=/export/home/gcc/gcc-3.0.4 \
--with-gnu-as --with-as=/export/home/binutils/binutils-2.11.2/bin/as \
--with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/export/home/binutils/binutils-2.11.2/bin/ld --enable-libgcj

gmake bootstrap
gmake install

I compiled GCC 3.0.4 for HP-UX 11.11 using:

PATH=/export/home/binutils/binutils-2.11.2/bin:${PATH}
export PATH

CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh
export CONFIG_SHELL

unset CCOPTS
unset LDOPTS

CC=cc
export CC

./configure --prefix=/export/home/gcc/gcc-3.0.4_gnu_as \
--exec-prefix=/export/home/gcc/gcc-3.0.4_gnu_as \
--with-gnu-as --with-as=/export/home/binutils/binutils-2.11.2/bin/as

gmake bootstrap
gmake install

I have tried three different products known to compile with GCC 3.0.4 compiler and they all fail at the linker stage with something along the lines of :

g++  -G -o `basename ../../lib/libCppUnit.so` TestCase.o TestFailure.o TestResult.o TestSuite.o
g++: unrecognized option `-G'
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols:
   main (Not referenced yet! Probably due to -u option)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[3]: *** [../../lib/libCppUnit.so] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/export/home/UnixCppUnit/UnixCppUnit_1.5/29_04_2002/UnixCppUnit/test/framework'
gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/UnixCppUnit/UnixCppUnit_1.5/29_04_2002/UnixCppUnit/test'
gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/UnixCppUnit/UnixCppUnit_1.5/29_04_2002/UnixCppUnit'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

I will get errors similar to the above when compiling:

UnixCppUnit v1.5
snmp++ v3.1.6c
xerces-c v4.0.1

Anytime I compile I seem to get the unrecognized -G option and the 'ld' errors about 'Unsatisifed symobols' which don't make any sense considering it is only linking in the *.o files which were just compiled and there are no external libraries being linked in just yet. 

I have also patched the HP-UX linker with the latest 'ld' patch of PHSS_26263 prior to compiling GCC 3.0.4

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Paul Nakao                                                 
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