Thanks, that seemed to do the trick. I made the change you suggested, did "make clean" in .../lib/readline, then "make", then "../../make" and it linked correctly. "make check" seemed OK with a few odd messages like
warning: ..." If the tests of the warning: process substitution mechanism fail, please do not consider warning: this a test failure" Thanks for the help :-)) Bill T. -----Original Message----- From: Chet Ramey [mailto:chet.ra...@case.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:44 AM To: Tovrea, George W (US SSA) Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org; chet.ra...@case.edu Subject: Re: Who handles "fails to build" problems for bash? Tovrea, George W (US SSA) wrote: > Tried adding each of -lcurses and -lncurses with the following results: > > /home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/bin/ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to > dynamic symbol PC > /home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: > Bad value > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I've not seen this before, nor do I have any SGI boxes to look at, so there will be some amount of blind shooting here. You could try adding -DNEED_EXTERN_PC to the value of the LOCAL_CFLAGS variable in lib/readline/Makefile and remaking terminal.o. This changes how PC is declared. Then relink and see if that fixes the problem. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
