fwd: "ln -s getopt.o getopt.o"

[David Sugar]

from address@hidden:

Hi, 

I am trying to build CommonC++ "2" on Soalris 2.8 with
GCC version 2.95.3 20010315 (release). 

I got an error message at the end of 'make' as below,
please advise what to do. Thanks -- Yao 

c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include
-I../src -DCCXX_EXPORT_LIBRARY -I/usr/local/include
-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -c ftp.cpp 
-fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/ftp.lo

c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include
-I../src -DCCXX_EXPORT_LIBRARY -I/usr/local/include
-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -c ftp.cpp
-o ftp.o >/dev/null 2>&1

mv -f .libs/ftp.lo ftp.lo 
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link c++  -I../src
-DCCXX_EXPORT_LIBRARY  -I/usr/local/include
-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE
-version-info 0:6 -release 0.99 -o libccext2.la -rpath
/usr/local/lib  buffer.lo fifo.lo pipe.lo numbers.lo
cmdoptns.lo  url.lo xml.lo persist.lo engine.lo
digest.lo date.lo groups.lo md5.lo  unix.lo ftp.lo
getopt.o getopt1.c -lposix4 -lpthread 
-L/usr/local/lib -lsocket

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libccext2.la
against the non-libtool 
*** objects  getopt.o is not portable! 
rm -fr .libs/libccext2.la .libs/libccext2.*
.libs/libccext2-0.99.* 
(cd . && ln -s getopt.o getopt.o) 
/usr/ccs/bin/ld -G -h libccext2-0.99.so.0 -o
.libs/libccext2-0.99.so.0.0.6  buffer.lo fifo.lo
pipe.lo numbers.lo cmdoptns.lo url.lo xml.lo
persist.lo engine.lo digest.lo date.lo groups.lo
md5.lo unix.lo ftp.lo  getopt.o  -lposix4 -lpthread
-L/usr/local/lib -lsocket -lc 

ld: fatal: file getopt.o: cannot open file: Number of
symbolic links encountered during path name traversal
exceeds MAXSYMLINKS

ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written
to .libs/libccext2-0.99.so.0.0.6 
*** Error code 1 
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target
`libccext2.la'