GCC 2.95.x: Major problems on Solaris (was: Lost specific.html FAQEntry)

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> 
> >  5. Has someone experiencing these problems already submitted bug reports
> >     to the binutils developers resp. Sun?
> 
> I haven't, under the assumption that the hint file entry in Perl saying
> that GNU ld wouldn't work meant that this was a known problem.  If people
> think it would help, I can try it again in a few days and put together a
> fuller problem report.  Perl makes extensive use of dynamically loaded
> modules, and the symptom that I was seeing was that when all of Perl was
> linked with GNU ld, it couldn't load the dynamic modules that it had just
> built.
> 

There are known bugs in binutils 2.9.1 on Solaris/Sparc. Quite a few
Solaris/Sparc bugs have been fixed in binutils in cvs.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)