From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) To: rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) Cc: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Gerald Pfeifer), gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GCC 2.95.x: Major problems on Solaris (was: Lost specific.html FAQEntry) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 17:07:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990829000659.7194E8EEE@ocean.lucon.org> References: X-SW-Source: 1999-08/msg00973.html > > Gerald Pfeifer writes: > > > 5. Has someone experiencing these problems already submitted bug reports > > to the binutils developers resp. Sun? > > I haven't, under the assumption that the hint file entry in Perl saying > that GNU ld wouldn't work meant that this was a known problem. If people > think it would help, I can try it again in a few days and put together a > fuller problem report. Perl makes extensive use of dynamically loaded > modules, and the symptom that I was seeing was that when all of Perl was > linked with GNU ld, it couldn't load the dynamic modules that it had just > built. > There are known bugs in binutils 2.9.1 on Solaris/Sparc. Quite a few Solaris/Sparc bugs have been fixed in binutils in cvs. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org) From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) To: rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) Cc: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac dot@(Gerald Pfeifer), gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GCC 2.95.x: Major problems on Solaris (was: Lost specific.html FAQEntry) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990829000659.7194E8EEE@ocean.lucon.org> References: X-SW-Source: 1999-08n/msg00973.html Message-ID: <19990831232000.r9K1kunZN-tWGCNvFn7_gnTzMNjVJrrB6te8jlMq7u8@z> > > Gerald Pfeifer writes: > > > 5. Has someone experiencing these problems already submitted bug reports > > to the binutils developers resp. Sun? > > I haven't, under the assumption that the hint file entry in Perl saying > that GNU ld wouldn't work meant that this was a known problem. If people > think it would help, I can try it again in a few days and put together a > fuller problem report. Perl makes extensive use of dynamically loaded > modules, and the symptom that I was seeing was that when all of Perl was > linked with GNU ld, it couldn't load the dynamic modules that it had just > built. > There are known bugs in binutils 2.9.1 on Solaris/Sparc. Quite a few Solaris/Sparc bugs have been fixed in binutils in cvs. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)