egcs-19980531, SunOS4 -fPIC fails on all programs now

[Kaveh R. Ghazi]

 > From: Manfred.Hollstein@ks.sel.alcatel.de
 > Subject: Re: egcs-19980531, SunOS4 -fPIC fails on all programs now
 > 
 > On Thu, 11 June 1998, 18:43:23, manfred@s-direktnet.de wrote:
 > 
 > Back in the office now. I'm just bootstrapping egcs with SunOS' native
 > tools  (exactly the same source; no  CVS update in  between); it's not
 > yet finished, but the stage2 compiler doesn't show any problems:
 > 
 > manfred

	Thanks for the report.  Based on the fact that it worked for
you, I looked more closely at my system and I think I've figured this
one out.

	The original report was that my SunOS4 ld core dumped when
compiling any program with -fPIC.  It turned out my SunOS4 system had an
older version of /bin/ld installed.  When I upgraded to the latest
SunOS4 linker from sun's patch site, I was able to get -fPIC to work. 
The particular patch ID was 100170-10. 

	We may want to put something in the FAQ to the effect that:

"EGCS built on older versions of SunOS4 may cause /bin/ld to core dump
due to bugs in the native linker (especially when using -fPIC.) To fix
this, you can either get the SunOS4 patch for ld (100170-10 or greater,)
or use the most recent version of binutils."

		--Kaveh
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