FAQ answer regarding dynamic linking

[Larry McQueary]

Hi,

I do not understand the answer to the following FAQ entry:

http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#rpath

Rather, it would be fairer to say that I don't understand how exactly to 
IMPLEMENT the answer.  I am running Solaris 2.8 and successfully built 
gcc-3.2 using the "bootstrap-lean" target.  It built successfully from 
start to finish, however, make check failed miserably for libstdc++-v3. 
Further, I could compile, but not run, a simple helloworld program:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
 printf("Hello, World!\n");
}

Compiles cleanly using g++ -o helloworld helloworld.cpp  But I get a seg 
fault when attempting to run helloworld.   Here's the output from gdb:

gdb helloworld core
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"...
Core was generated by `./helloworld'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.so.5...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.so.5
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libm.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdl.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/lib/libc_psr.so.1
#0  __register_frame_info_bases (begin=0xff2b0000, ob=0xff2b0000, 
tbase=0x0, dbase=0x0)
   at ../../gcc-3.2/gcc/unwind-dw2-fde.c:83
83        ob->tbase = tbase;

Here's the output from c++ -v

c++ -v -g -o helloworld helloworld.cpp
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.2/configure --with-as=/usr/local/bin/as 
--with-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/cc1plus -v -D__GNUC__=3 
-D__GNUC_MINOR__=2 -D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=0 -D__GXX_ABI_VERSION=102 
-Dsparc -Dsun -Dunix -D__svr4__ -D__SVR4 -D__PRAGMA_REDEFINE_EXTNAME 
-D__sparc__ -D__sun__ -D__unix__ -D__svr4__ -D__SVR4 
-D__PRAGMA_REDEFINE_EXTNAME -D__sparc -D__sun -D__unix -Asystem=unix 
-Asystem=svr4 -D__NO_INLINE__ -D__STDC_HOSTED__=1 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE=1 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1 -D__EXTENSIONS__ 
-D__SIZE_TYPE__=unsigned int -D__PTRDIFF_TYPE__=int 
-D__WCHAR_TYPE__=long int -D__WINT_TYPE__=long int -D__GCC_NEW_VARARGS__ 
-Acpu=sparc -Amachine=sparc helloworld.cpp -D__GNUG__=3 -D__DEPRECATED 
-D__EXCEPTIONS -quiet -dumpbase helloworld.cpp -g -version -o 
/var/tmp//cccCWJLF.s
GNU CPP version 3.2 (cpplib) (sparc ELF)
GNU C++ version 3.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8)
       compiled by GNU C version 3.2.
ignoring nonexistent directory "NONE/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/include"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
/usr/local/include/c++/3.2
/usr/local/include/c++/3.2/sparc-sun-solaris2.8
/usr/local/include/c++/3.2/backward
/usr/local/include
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/include
/usr/include
End of search list.
/usr/local/bin/as -V -Qy -s -o /var/tmp//ccyGzP5i.o /var/tmp//cccCWJLF.s
GNU assembler version 2.13 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) using BFD version 2.13
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/collect2 -V -Y 
P,/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/lib -Qy -o helloworld 
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/crt1.o 
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/crti.o 
/usr/ccs/lib/values-Xa.o 
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/crtbegin.o 
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2 
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/../../../../sparc-sun-solaris2.8/lib 
-L/usr/ccs/bin -L/usr/ccs/lib 
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/../../.. 
/var/tmp//ccyGzP5i.o -lstdc++ -lm -lgcc_s -lgcc -lc -lgcc_s -lgcc -lc 
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/crtend.o 
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/crtn.o
GNU ld version 2.13
 Supported emulations:
  elf32_sparc
  elf64_sparc


On referring to the FAQ, I found the entry above and added 
"-R/usr/local/lib" to "*link:" in the gcc specs file.  However, when I 
run g++ to build my little helloworld program, I still get the same 
results as before (seg fault/core dump).  

Can you help by giving me more specific instructions on how to solve 
this problem or what to add to the -R?  What is the preferred solution here?

Thanks,
Larry McQueary