Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Problems compiling on Solaris 9 with GCC 3.3.2

[Will Robertson]

(see below)

On 2003.12.16 17:54, Patrick Mauritz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:43:33AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > This may not work.  I don't know the situation now, not having
> > worked on a non-Linux box in a few years, but previously the choice  
> > of ld was made when configuring gcc, and actually changed gcc's
> > behavior.
>
> it definitely doesn't work
>
> > Another possibility is to figure out how monotone should pass
> > -static/-shared or equivalent options for the Sun ld, then either
> > see if there is a way to do this that also works with GNU ld, or
> > use configure to select the switches.


Err... it's Solaris' ld that doesn't like the switches -- prev. post  
gives URLs to some bug-requests/posts/explanations;  basically boost  
wants to compile some libraries with -shared and -static switches,  
which works fine with GNU ld, but when GCC converts -shared and -static  
to what it thinks Solaris' ld wants, it ends up being a conflict, and  
it looks like the GCC team don't want to 'fix' it, they just want you  
to give the full path to a static lib, instead of using '-static
-l<blah>'


> or just build the thing dynamically - iirc boost still tries to build
> some libraries as shared even if you ask it to build only static  
> ones, yes, sucks..
>
> same for monotone later, just configure with --enable-shared (doesn't
> work otherwise as pthreads and some other stuff doesn't exist as  
> static libraries on solaris)


This is what I was thinking of trying.  Thanks, I'll definitely have a  
go at this.


> patrick mauritz
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