solaris 10: address@hidden

[David Lee]

Quite a few folk seem to be having trouble linking on Solaris 10.

These seem to be well-established applications, that have compiled and 
linked for years on a wide range of OSes, including Solaris 8 and 9,
but something seems subtly different on Solaris 10: some interaction 
amongst Solaris 10 libraries, GNU ld, libtool.  It is unclear whether this 
is multiple "pilot error", of a fault in a single one of that list, or 
some strange interaction.

The faults are typically of the form:
    [...] undefined reference to address@hidden'
    [...] undefined reference to address@hidden'
    [...] undefined reference to address@hidden'
    [...] undefined reference to address@hidden'

and probably related to the building of convenience libraries.

The collection of examples is primarily at:
   http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=24107&tstart=0

augmented with a little discussion on "comp.unix.solaris".

The first question is very simple: are there any already-known issues in 
this area?  (Known problem?  Known resolution?)

If not, then where might we (as beginners) begin?

(Incidentally: this may or may not be relevant to the above:  in my own 
case, I know that our GNU ld and libtool are somewhat out-of-date.  So 
I've attempted to get libtool 1.5.18 installed.  "make check" is fine on 
S8, but has a failure in "mdemo2-make.test" on S10.  If someone can guide 
me, I'd be happy to try to pursue this futher.)



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