latest snapshot fails to build libobjc.so on Solaris

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 21, 2000, Joe Buck <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com> wrote:

>> > __objc_class_name_NXConstantString  0x20      	.libs/linking.o
>> > ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections

> What they have in common is that all of these .o files are built from
> Objective-C sources.  Perhaps something is wrong with PIC generation from
> Objective-C?

That's possible.  I remember having tracked one such failure before,
but it affected C++.  I don't think the fix was C++-specific, though.

> Here is an example of a command that builds libs/linking.o:

What does the assembly code look like?  Particularly, the code just
around the reference to the symbol, and the section in which it is
stored.

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