From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Russ Allbery Cc: 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: References: X-SW-Source: 1999-08n/msg01003.html Message-ID: <19990831232000.NPh7Pu1ZfA9YhpffuB0Y_xAkGHCaGGs1Lr2g41A1fTo@z> On 28 Aug 1999, Russ Allbery wrote: >> 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. It might be the case that there were a couple of bugs, so providing some new feedback that it still does not work could prove rather useful. > 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. HJ Lu mentioned that the CVS versions of binutils have a couple of SPARC-related issues fixed, perhaps you can give that a try? (I don't have the URL, but I am sure someone on this list will provide it.) Thanks, Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/