an installation bug in either gcc, gld, or readline -- I don't know which

[Andrew Koenig]

I just installed gcc 3.0.3 on a Solaris 8 (aka Solaris 2.8) machine.

Installation of readline 4.2a (the latest version, as far as I know)
fails with the message

      /usr/gnu/bin/ld: -r and -shared may not be used together

The command that fails is

      gcc -shared -Wl,-i -Wl,-h,libreadline.so.4  -o libreadline.so.4 readline.so vi_mode.so funmap.so keymaps.so parens.so search.so rltty.so complete.so bind.so isearch.so display.so signals.so util.so kill.so undo.so macro.so input.so callback.so terminal.so nls.so xmalloc.so history.so histexpand.so histfile.so histsearch.so shell.so tilde.so compat.so 

I am reporting this problem to gcc-bugs because the cause appears to be
that gcc is passing options to the Gnu loader that the loader will not
accept.  I would think that that should not happen even if inappropriate
options are given to the gcc command.




						Regards,


						Andrew Koenig