install/libraries on solaris2.6 (PR#280)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 ulrich.poetter@ruhr-uni-bochum.de wrote:

> Prof Brian D Ripley writes:
>  > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 ulrich.poetter@ruhr-uni-bochum.de wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Full_Name: ulrich poetter
>  > > Version: 0.65.0
>  > > OS: sparc-sun-solaris 2.6
>  > > Submission from: (NULL) (134.147.95.163)
>  > > 
>  > > 
>  > > Building R-0.65.0 on sparc-sun-solaris2.6 using sun make + gcc 2.95.1+ binutils
>  > > 2.8.1
>  > > and ./configure --with-g77 fails when building the eda etc. libraries. The
>  > > configure 
>  > > script produces SHLIBLDFLAGS= -G. Replacing this in config.site by 
>  > > SHLIBLDFLAGS = -shared gives no errors during make, but "make check" fails when
>  > > trying to load library "eda" with the message "Symbol rsort not found". Trying
>  > > the 
>  > > other libraries by hand results in similar errors, except for "base" and "mva",
>  > > 
>  > > while "make test-Specific" gives no errors. 
>  > 
>  > Fuller details, please. Exactly that configuration works for me (except I
>  > don't know where binutils are in your path). Looks like you haven't got
>  > linking against R.X11 correct.  Try using the sun ld if you are not already
>  > doing so (it is recommended for Solaris).
> 
> Thanks. Using the sun ld (with everything else the same) works. 
> 
> The Readme of gnu ld mentions a difference to sun ld and says it would 
> emulate its behavior if given the "-E" flag. I didn't try this, but if 
> this was the case, could one not try to figure it out in the configure 
> script?

_I_ am not sure it is at all easy to find out which ld you are using, but
thanks for the info: another thing to watch out for.


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