Re: Error Compiling GCC on Solaris 10 / x86

[Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>]

Gaurav Jain wrote:

> In fact, I specifically need to *try out* the GNU ld / GNU as
> combination to debug some issue in the binary

Oh.  That wasn't clear.

So, it looks like gcc is passing a -T option for a linker script that
the Solaris-provided GNU ld can't find.  Run the failing link command
with -### to see what the invocation of the linker is, and then figure
out if the linker script that gcc is passing exists, and if so where. 
If not, figure out why it's not included.  'elf_i386.xsc' should be the
variant for 32 bit shared libraries built with -z combreloc.  What
version is this /usr/sfw/bin/gld anyway?  If it's ancient it may be too
old for gcc 4.1.

> Even if it's not recommended, but I'm sure it sure does build fine
> with that combination?

I can't parse this.  Are you asking why GNU ld doesn't generally work
with Solaris 10?  It's because of a new type of shared library that GNU
ld doesn't yet support, as far as I can tell:
<http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1021>.  I don't know if
you can expect a gcc bootstrap to complete or not with GNU ld even if
you fix the missing linker script problem.

Brian