Re: latest snapshot fails to build libobjc.so on Solaris

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:28:57AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> > Are those .o files compiled with PIC?
> 
> Yes.  It's the traditional --enable-shared build where each .o file is
> compiled twice, once with PIC in the libs subdirectory.
> 
> What they have in common is that all of these .o files are built from
> Objective-C sources.  Perhaps something is wrong with PIC generation from
> Objective-C?  (There is also Object.m which doesn't produce any bad symbols).
> 

Last time when I checked a few months ago, the PIC support in the
Objective-C compiler was broken on most if not all ELF targets:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-08/msg00153.html

I don't know if it has been fixed or not.


H.J.