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Brian Hicks wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:20:21 -0500, David Somers <dsomers at omz13.com> > wrote: > >> So libtool is bitchin' that /usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.la is bad... did you >> upgrade your compiler without upgrading/recompiling its support >> libraries? > > I'm using a fresh install of Solaris 10u2 (6/06). I used smpatch to > upgrade the system with the latest patches. /usr/sfw comes with the system > and I haven't touched it, other than to symlink a few files (i.e. gmake to > make, gar to ar, etc.) so things get found properly. I did notice a funny > message during configure that looked like this: > > checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/ccs/bin/ld > > Why doesn't it use /usr/sfw/bin/ld? /usr/ccs/bin isn't even in my PATH. It depends how the autoconf stuff does its magic... IIRC it searches for things in specific locations, which may or may not include $PATH... you'll have to dig itno the autoconf files to see exactly what is being looked for and where. > >> There have been some changes made to the build files, and those changes >> are >> in the latest testing... backporting fixes to latest commercial doesn't >> happen, so that's why its always a good idea to check latest testing to >> see >> if things that were broke have been fixed. > > Again, there's a sparc package for this version, so it MUST be possible to > build in Solaris. Very probably... but not many people have Sparc hardware (I haven't touched any for about a decade!). > the x86 version is close enough that the same build > process should be replicateable. Solaris 10 is backwards compatible with > Solaris 8, too, so that shouldn't be the issue. But my build environment > might be way off. I don't believe Sun makes any guarantees about the GNU > software shipped with Solaris. It does sound like the version of GCC toolchain and libstdc++ are out-of-sync... > > Brian -- David Somers typographer/programmer/whatever