Symbol weirdness on SCO OSR5

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.SCO.3.96.970901165458.23189A-101000@hyperion.pdev.sco.com >you write:
  > SCO Open Server 5. When compiling with egcs or gcc2.8, I get the following
  > error when trying to create the dynamic version of libXaw.so:
  > fatal error: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable
  > section: .text
  > 
  > This is becuase ld is being invoked with -z text. It bleats about the
  > symbols in Panner.o. For reference, I have included the object files
  > generated by both egcs and the old gcc2.7.2.1, as well as objdump
  > disassembly and objump --reloc.
  > 
Did it complain about any particular symbols?  If so, are those symbols
stuff normally found in libgcc.a?  That would indicate a missing -fpic/-fPIC
when building libgcc.

jeff