Re: compile on Solaris 8 with gcc 3.2.2
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, henry nelson wrote:
> > By the way, how come dynamic linking doesn't work? Is it safe to
> > assume you attempted using shared libraries but the process failed?
>
> If I knew "how come" I wouldn't be here. AFAICT, it's a problem in the
> configure script. Since gcc3.2.x, I haven't been able to get a single
> program to link properly without setting "-Wl,-rpath" to EVERY library
> that gets linked in. Normally this works by using the environment
> variable LDFLAGS, but if I set anything in LDFLAGS, the mutt configure
> script immediately dies with "gcc isn't usable." If I try to link
> dynamically without setting LDFLAGS, then something goes wrong with
> the check on the iconv library. IIRC, I was able to build a non-
> international version of mutt just with "configure; make," but it's
> been close to a year now.
perhaps the gcc was a package that had the wrong pathnames compiled-in.
(I'd simply recompile a new gcc in that case). In my day job, I've been
using (my own compile, not a package) gcc on Solaris 8 for some time.
No magic options needed...
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