gettext 0.12.1 build failure (Solaris 7 or 8, GCC 2.95.3)

[Paul Eggert]

gettext 0.12.1 fails to build on a Solaris 7 (sparc) host with GCC 2.95.3
installed.  I get similar symptoms on Solaris 8 (sparc).  I do not have
any problem when building with the Sun C compiler.

Here are the symptoms on Solaris 7.  Apparently the problem is that
the gettext build procedure assumes that libstdc++ has been compiled
with -fpic, but this isn't true here: only the static libraries exist,
and they are not compiled with -fpic.

...
/bin/ksh ./libtool --mode=link g++  -g -O2   -o libasprintf.la -rpath 
/u/f2/eggert/opt/SunOS-5.7-sparc/gettext-0.12.1/lib  lib-asprintf.lo 
autosprintf.lo  
g++ -shared -nostdlib  
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/crti.o 
/usr/ccs/lib/values-Xa.o 
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/crtbegin.o  
.libs/lib-asprintf.o .libs/autosprintf.o  
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3 -L/usr/ccs/bin 
-L/usr/ccs/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lstdc++ -lm -lgcc 
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/crtend.o 
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/crtn.o  -Wl,-h 
-Wl,libasprintf.so.0 -o .libs/libasprintf.so.0.0.0
Text relocation remains                         referenced
    against symbol                  offset      in file
<unknown>                           0xac8       
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/libstdc++.a(iovfscanf.o)
<unknown>                           0xacc       
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/libstdc++.a(iovfscanf.o)
<unknown>                           0xad0       
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/libstdc++.a(iovfscanf.o)
<unknown>                           0xad4       
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/libstdc++.a(iovfscanf.o)
<unknown>                           0xad8       
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/libstdc++.a(iovfscanf.o)
... [ lots more entries like this, deleted ] ...
.rem                                0x164       
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/libstdc++.a(outfloat.o)
_IO_file_close_it                   0x390       
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/libstdc++.a(filebuf.o)
_IO_file_underflow                  0x344       
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/libstdc++.a(filebuf.o)
ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [libasprintf.la] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory 
`/u/f2/eggert/src/gettext/obj-SunOS-5.7-sparc/gettext-runtime/libasprintf'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/u/f2/eggert/src/gettext/obj-SunOS-5.7-sparc/gettext-runtime/libasprintf'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/u/f2/eggert/src/gettext/obj-SunOS-5.7-sparc/gettext-runtime'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/u/f2/eggert/src/gettext/obj-SunOS-5.7-sparc/gettext-runtime'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/f2/eggert/src/gettext/obj-SunOS-5.7-sparc'
make: *** [obj-SunOS-5.7-sparc/default.made] Error 2

Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Wed Jun 11 00:29:49