GCC 4.4.2 fails to build on Tru64 UNIX

[RUMI Szabolcs]

Hi!

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:46:14 -0800
Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:

> RUMI Szabolcs <rumi_ml@rtfm.hu> writes:
> 
> > 48801:/usr/src/gcc/obj/./gcc/cc1: /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: Cannot map library libmpfr.so.1
> 
> Throw away your current MPFR build and rebuild it, but this time use
> --disable-shared when you run configure.

Apart from the obvious reason of going down the easier path, why
would I want to give up on shared libs so easily? The platform
does support shared libs, native ld also supports -rpath and even
GNU-style library lookup order, so theoretically it should work,
or am I wrong?

References:
http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51B_HTML/MAN/MAN1/0668____.HTM

Thanks,
Sab