Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency

[Jim Meyering]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>
>>> It does not successfully build using GCC on my Solaris 10 system, and
>>> not even with the workaround described in the INSTALL file.
>>
>> Did you report it?
>
> Yes.

Since it involves Solaris' ld, it's harder to reproduce
and work around, as well as probably lower priority.

>> I've been building xz on sparc Solaris 10 with gcc since
>> back when the program was called lzma.
>
> Maybe your GCC is different than mine.  Mine uses the Solaris linker
> from /usr/ccs/bin/ld.  This is for x86 rather than SPARC.

I've been using gcc-4.2.3 with /usr/ccs/bin/ld.