Re: Solaris 9 Compile Problems

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:

> I'm using GCC 3.3.1 Sunfreeware on a sparc E250 running Solaris 9 to 
> compile xinetd-2.3.12 from source.   If I compile with
> 
> 
> If I compile with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-loadavg
> 
> ld: elf error: file ../libs/lib/libportable.a: elf_getarsym
> ld: fatal: library -lportable: not found
> ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to itox
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [itox] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/xinetd-2.3.12/xinetd'
> make: *** [makeprog] Error 2

FYI, xinetd-2.3.11 compiles cleanly on the identical hardware running 
Solaris 9.    

I'm not sure that it matters but both 2.3.11 and 2.3.12 configure script 
detects the gcc compiler output to be a.out instead of elf.   Compliling 
2.3.11 results in an elf executable.

Brian Seppanen
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