latest snapshot fails to build libobjc.so on Solaris

H . J . Lu hjl@valinux.com
Tue Nov 21 10:55:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:50:31AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> > Last time when I checked a few months ago, the PIC support in the
> > Objective-C compiler was broken on most if not all ELF targets:
> 
> libobjc.so builds OK on i686-pc-linux-gnu, which is ELF.  (Now
> that doesn't mean that something isn't broken).
> 

It doesn't mean much since the GNU linker, which i686-pc-linux-gnu
uses, may handle many things which the Solaris linker refuses to
at the price of reduced performance/feature.

I noticed that the Objective-C compiler did quite a few things wrong
with PIC for ELF. I don't know how to fix it.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)


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