Re: compile on Solaris 8 with gcc 3.2.2
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, David Champion wrote:
> * On 2003.10.31, in <20031101021550.GA12493@xxxxxxxx>,
> * "Allister MacLeod" <amacleod@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I thought that the linker only included the .o files that were used.
>
> Generally, yes. Solaris 8 should certainly be no exception.
>
>
> > By the way, how come dynamic linking doesn't work? Is it safe to
> > assume you attempted using shared libraries but the process failed?
>
> I wonder this too. The dlopen fudgery is required to build static execs
> on Solaris, but... why not just use shared? I can imagine reasons for
> static build of some programs, but mutt doesn't strike me as a likely
> candidate.
I seem to recall reading that Sun doesn't provide any static libraries in
Solaris 9 and up.
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