> This bug, documented in the installation instructions: > [...] > apparently can also be triggered by libffi on Solaris 10. See > http://www.mail-archive.com/g-wrap-dev@nongnu.org/msg00045.html and > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2006-July/034400.html > for build logs.
I'm a bit skeptical, Kaveh and I have been building libffi on SPARC/Solaris 10 for a couple of years without a hitch (3.4.x, 4.x) with the Sun tools. Of course it all depends on the version of the Sun assembler or... > Anybody knows what are the affected releases in this case, whether it is > an assembler or linker bug, and whether there is a workaround? ... if the user is trying to link objects files assembled by the GNU assembler using the Sun linker. -- Eric Botcazou
