Re: cannot build xemacs-21.1.9 on mips-sgi-irix6.5
On Sunday 12 Mar 00, Martin Buchholz writes:
>>>>> "JV" == Jan Vroonhof
<vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes:
JV> This is Max Matveev describing the invariant his code is expecting.
JV> Does that hold when compiling with gcc?
Sounds like a question of which _linker_ is used, not which compiler.
Which one gcc uses is determined by the --with-gnu-ld flag used when
configuring gcc. The system ld comes for free, so folks are more
likely to install gcc than gnu ld (part of binutils).
Hi,
I'm the one who originally reported this. I should add that the gcc
build attempt (which failed) and the cc build (which succeeded) *both*
used the system ld.
However, I have found an old version of gnu ranlib 2.8 on this system.
It would have been applied during both builds. I am currently
"negotiating" with our sysadmin to have it removed, at which point
I'll try again to build with gcc, and report back.
(Not sure whether an old ranlib would be a factor, but I would like to
rule it out before wasting anyone else's time.)
Regards,
David
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