It seems that currently the only way to building gcc is with version > 4
using the solaris linker as per:
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i?86-*-solaris2.10
Use this for Solaris 10 or later on x86 and x86-64 systems. This
configuration is supported by GCC 4.0 and later versions only.
It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler in
/usr/sfw/bin/gas but the Sun linker, using the options --with-gnu-as
--with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld.
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We would like to move from linux to solaris x86 (with solaris 10).
However up until now we have been linking our code using the -( archives
-) option of the GNU ld.
While it appeared that /usr/ccs/bin/ld has an equivalent option called -z
rescan, in practice it doesn't work properly. Binaries seems to link, but
when they run they sometimes core dump due to a static initialization
problem. If I take out the -z rescan for a particular binary and reorder
the libraries the binary works.
Not using this -( archive -) option is really not an option for us so this
is sort of a show stopper.
Not sure if others have noticed this problem. I have confirmed this is an
issue with the very latest solaris ld.
The real issue is I think that we would like to be able to still use the
GNU ld on solaris x86 with solaris 10. Is support for that actively being
worked on?
I apologize if this is not the appropriate mailing list for this post - if
so please direct me to a more appropriate forum. Thanks in advance for
your help.
-Matthew Tepel
