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

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On 28 Aug 1999, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>  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.

It might be the case that there were a couple of bugs, so providing some
new feedback that it still does not work could prove rather useful.

> 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.

HJ Lu mentioned that the CVS versions of binutils have a couple of
SPARC-related issues fixed, perhaps you can give that a try?

(I don't have the URL, but I am sure someone on this list will provide
it.)

Thanks,
Gerald
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