RE: problems building on Solaris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alastair Reid [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:27 AM
> To: herington, dean
> Subject: Re: [Hugs-bugs] problems building on Solaris
> 
> 
> It looks as though you want to use one of:
> 
>   '-r'
> or
>   '-Dy -G'
> 
> I think both of these are equally likely to work.  Hugs needs 
> something it can 
> load with dlopen and one part of the page says this means it 
> must be a shared 
> library (so use -Dy -G) but Sigbjorn Finne used to strongly 
> believe that all 
> that was wanted was a relocatable object file (so use -r).

'-r' is what configure chose, but it didn't work for me.
'-dy -G' (note: lower-case 'd') did work!  Thanks!

> 
> Other flags you might play with are:
> 
>   -z combreloc
>     Make loading a little faster.
> 
>   -z defs
>     I think this would catch errors sooner.
> 
> but I don't think they will improve the chances of it 
> working, so try -r and 
> '-dy -G' first.
> 
> --
> Alastair
> 
> ps The problem is not Hugs+Solaris but Hugs+SunOS ld (instead 
> of gcc ld).