Re: coreutils 6.0, Solaris 9 build failure

[Keith Thompson]

On Tue 06-08-15 22:12, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Keith Thompson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I got the same error with gcc 4.1.1.
> 
> Are you building GCC with the Sun linker, or with the binutils linker?
> I'm doing the former, and that might be related to the problem.  Not
> that I think it matters, but I built GCC 4.1.1 with
> "CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh configure --disable-nls
> --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-system-zlib --prefix=[my local
> prefix]"

It looks like I'm using the GNU linker; "gcc -v" says
"GNU ld version 2.16.1".

[...]
> > I'm trying again with PATH=`getconf PATH` (which sets it to
> > /usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin).  This will
> > use Sun's C compiler rather than gcc.

And it worked.

> Good luck.  But it should work with GCC 4, since it works for me.
> 
> Can you reproduce the problem with the following small program?
> What happens when you try to compile and link it with GCC?
> 
> char gai_strerror ();
> 
> int
> main ()
> {
>   return gai_strerror ();
> }
> 
> On my host "gcc t.c -lsocket -lnsl" compiles and links this just fine.

Mine too.

I've been messing around with $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and $LD_RUN_PATH;
possibly that screwed things up somehow.

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