Re: relocation error: R_AMD64_PC32

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>]

On 11 March 2011 17:06,  asyropoulos wrote:
>
> Well not really! ?The problem was that at a certain point during
> the configuration stage, the Configure script asks the following
> question:
>
> Any special flags to pass to x86_64-pc-solaris2.11-gcc to
> create a dynamically loaded library? [ -G -m64 -fstack-protector]

Notice that this is passing options to gcc, not ld

> And quite naturally (!) one presses enter because Solaris users
> know that the Solaris linker accepts the -G option. But for starnge
> reason this does not work. One has to enter the following:
>
> -shared -m64 -fstack-protector
>
> Now what is even more curious is that the man page of Solaris ld
> says among others the following:
>
> ? ? -G
> ? ? -shared
>
> ? ? ? ? In dynamic mode only, produces a ?shared ?object. ?Unde-
> ? ? ? ? fined ? symbols ?are ?allowed. ?See ?Chapter ?4, ?Shared
> ? ? ? ? Objects, in Linker and Libraries Guide.

But that's the ld man page, not the gcc man page.

> In different words, both -G and -shared are supposed to do the

For the linker, not for GCC.

> same thing but apparently they don't. Maybe, -shared forces GCC
> to some things, while the -G thing is passed directly to the linker
> without touching anything else.

GCC won't pass options through to the linker, and -G means something
else to GCC, it probably isn't passed to the linker at all.

If you use -shared (which is a valid GCC option) it will pass that
option through to ld.