egcs-1.0.3a / binutils-2.8.1 and shared libs

[Paul Forgey]

I did as someone suggested and tried 1.1 - that indeed fixed it.  Some minor
cross-compiling issues I ran into with 1.0.3a seem to be fixes as well :).

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Forgey <paulf@aphrodite.com>
To: egcs@cygnus.com <egcs@cygnus.com>
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 1:21 PM
Subject: egcs-1.0.3a / binutils-2.8.1 and shared libs


>I'm having a wierd problem using egcs to generate shared libraries.  My
>platform is sparc-sun-solaris2.6.
>
>Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this myself in a test case.  One real
world
>program which does reproduce this is qt-1.40.  That package works fine if I
>use the Sun Workshop Pro C++ compiler to build it.
>
>If I use egcs to build the shared library, ld.so.1 complains about bad
>relocations in bogus symbols when trying to run an executable linked
against
>that library.  I'm also seeing this for other shared libraries kde
>generates.  In qt's case, I can build libqt statically, and it works fine
>(but with huge executable images of course :).
>
>The binutils version of ld is indeed being used.
>
>What's wierd about this is that I can use ldd to view the dependancies of
>the shared library, (as well as nm it) and from what I can tell, the format
>and integrity of the library is otherwise OK.
>
>Even stranger, I can build a perfectly working libstdc++.so.2.8.1.1 without
>problems, so I'm wondering if linking against Solaris' X shared libraries
>are causing this..
>
>