Re: [PATCH] Support gcc-3.4 and greater under Solaris 2.5 without pdump
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:44:54 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
Vin Shelton <ethersoft(a)gmail.com> writes:
> I actually am a little surprised that configure attempts to force
> the system linker, because: 1) the PROBLEMS file calls out this very
> issue and 2) I'm pretty sure we recently received an email where the
> user was attempting to build on Solaris with the GNU linker.
It seems reasonable for configure to force the system linker if it's
known that the GNU one doesn't work, and when the system one is always
available (unlike Sun's cc, the linker ships with Solaris). Why do
you find it surprising?
Primarily because of my reason #2. We get occasional build errors on
Solaris that trace back to trying to build with binutils. I agree
that it's good to avoid the binutils on Solaris since they don't work.
I still haven't found if there's an easy way to force the new system
linker on gcc 3.4.0 and above. I found the change that removed the
option from gcc, but I haven't found the rationale.
- Vin