Re: target/9843: [HPUX] -static still leaves the linker looking f or shl_*

[law@redhat.com]

The following reply was made to PR target/9843; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: law@redhat.com
To: "BONNER,MATT (HP-Vancouver,ex1)" <matt.bonner@hp.com>
Cc: "'John David Anglin'" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>, danglin@gcc.gnu.org,
   gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, nobody@gcc.gnu.org,
   gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: target/9843: [HPUX] -static still leaves the linker looking f or 
 shl_*
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:53:45 -0700

 In message <A134E2426B46D711BB4B000347AE6E7C76EBBE@xvan02.vcd.hp.com>, "BONNER,
 MATT (HP-Vancouver,ex1)" writes:
  >>> From: law@redhat.com [mailto:law@redhat.com]
  >>> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:43 AM
  >>> To: BONNER,MATT (HP-Vancouver,ex1)
  >>> Cc: 'John David Anglin'; danglin@gcc.gnu.org; gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org;
  >>> gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org; nobody@gcc.gnu.org; gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
  >>> Subject: Re: target/9843: [HPUX] -static still leaves the linker looking
  >f or shl_*
  >>> 
  >>> 
  >>> In message 
  >>> <A134E2426B46D711BB4B000347AE6E7C76EBBD@xvan02.vcd.hp.com>, "BONNER,
  >MATT" writes:
  >>>  >Hmmm...
  >>>  >
  >>>  >Maybe all is still not well.  When I move an executable compiled with
  >>>  >all this stuff from an HP-UX 11 machine to an HP-UX machine, I get
  >>>  >
  >>>  >/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /usr/lib/libdld.2
  >>>  >/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory
  >>>  >IOT trap
  >>>  >
  >>>  >I'm hunting around as I write this, but if you know what I'm doing
  >>>  >wrong now, please let me know.  Or if the answer is "You can't run
  >>>  >11 executables on 10." :-)
  >>>
  >>> You can't run hpux11 executables on an hpux10 system.
  >
  >Okay.  Bummer.  However, I'm still confused.  I thought all these -Wl,-E,+n
  >commands were to link statically.  Why, then, is the executable looking for
  >shared library libdld.2?
 Because it's impossible to build a true static executable on hpux11.
 jeff