Rainer (or others),
the FAQ entry below seems obsolete to me (dates back more than a
decade). Shall we remove it, or is there something else we still
should document (in addition to gcc/doc/install.texi)?
Gerald
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<ol>
<li><a href="#3_1">I need something more recent than the last
release; how
should I build it?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#3_2">Linker bug on Solaris</a></li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><a href="#4_0">Gcj Compile/Link Questions</a>
@@ -278,33 +277,6 @@ $ gij HelloWorld
</dd>
</dl>
- <hr />
- <h3><a name="3_2">3.2 Linker bug on Solaris</a></h3>
- <dl>
- <dd>
- There is a known problem with the <a
href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/1999-10/msg00159.html";>
- native Solaris linker</a> when using gcc/gcj. A good indication
you've
- run into this problem is if you get an error that looks like the
following
- when building libgcj:
- <pre>
-ld: warning: option -o appears more than once, first setting taken
-ld: fatal: file libfoo.so: cannot open file: No such file or directory
-ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to .libs/libfoo.so
-collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
- </pre>
- A known workaround for this and other reported link problems on the
- various releases of Solaris is to build gcc/gcj with the <a
href="ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/snapshots";>
- latest GNU binutils</a> instead of the native Solaris <tt>ld</tt>.
The
- most straightforward way to do this is to build and install
binutils,
- and then reference it in the configure for gcc via
<tt>--with-ld=/path_to_binutils_install/bin/ld</tt>
- (<tt>--with-as</tt> may also be similarly specified but is not
believed
- to be required).
- <br />
- Please note, gcc/gcj must be built using GNU ld prior to doing a
- clean build of libgcj!
- </dd>
- </dl>
-
<h2><a name="4_0">Gcj Compile/Link Questions</a></h2>
<h3><a name="4_1">4.1 Why do I get <tt>undefined reference to
`main'</tt>
