specific.html patch for OpenServer ld fix
Robert Lipe
robertlipe@usa.net
Wed Dec 30 14:05:00 GMT 1998
The fixed linker is now available to the public.
Index: specific.html
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RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/wwwdocs/htdocs/install/specific.html,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -c -5 -p -r1.20 specific.html
*** specific.html 1998/12/21 08:42:15 1.20
--- specific.html 1998/12/30 22:01:40
*************** OpenServer-specific flags.
*** 27,36 ****
--- 27,44 ----
<p>Systems based on OpenServer before 5.0.4 (<code>uname -X</code> will
tell you what you're running) require TLS597 from ftp.sco.com/TLS for
C++ constructors and destructors to work right.
+ <p>The system linker in (at least) 5.0.4 and 5.0.5 will sometimes
+ do the wrong thing for a construct that egcs will emit for PIC
+ code. This can be seen as execution testsuite failures when using
+ -fPIC on 921215-1.c, 931002-1.c, nestfunc-1.c, and gcov-1.c.
+ For 5.0.5, an updated linker that will cure this problem is
+ available at <a href=" ftp://ftp.sco.com/Supplements/rs505a/ ">
+ ftp://ftp.sco.com/Supplements/rs505a/ </a>.
+
<p><b>i?86-*-udk</b><br>
This target emulates the SCO Universal Development Kit and requires that
package be installed. It's very much like the i?86-*-unixware7 target
but is meant to be used when hosting on a system where UDK isn't the
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