Currently this is shown when building libstdc++ on Solaris: -lrt: open: No such file or directory The error comes from the make_sunver.pl script which tries to open each of its arguments. The arguments are passed by this make rule: perl ${glibcxx_srcdir}/scripts/make_exports.pl \ libstdc++-symbols.ver \ $(libstdc___la_OBJECTS:%.lo=.libs/%.o) \ `echo $(libstdc___la_LIBADD) | \ sed 's,/\([^/.]*\)\.la,/.libs/\1.a,g'` \ > $@ || (rm -f $@ ; exit 1) The $(libstdc___la_LIBADD) variable includes $(GLIBCXX_LIBS) which contains -lrt on Solaris. This patch adds another sed script to filter -l arguments from the echo command. In order to reliably match ' -l[^ ]* ' the echo arguments are quoted and a space added before and after them. This might be overkill just to remove -lrt from the start of the string, but should be robust in case other -l arguments are added to $(GLIBCXX_LIBS), or in case the $(libstdc___la_LIBADD) libraries are reordered. libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog: * src/Makefile.am (libstdc++-symbols.ver-sun): Remove -lrt from arguments passed to make_sunver.pl script. * src/Makefile.in: Regenerate. Tested sparc-solaris2.11. Rainer, does this look OK? Iain, the libstdc++-symbols.explist target for Darwin is very similar, but I don't know if it's a problem there. Does GLIBCXX_LIBS contain anything in $target/libstdc++-v3/src/Makefile on Darwin? Should we make the same change just in case?