From bronto@crs4.it

Hello there

I successfully installed Perl 5.8.0 on Solaris 8 with gcc, and GNU
ld/as. I had to renounce to the gdbm interface since the package I
installed on the system didn't match with gcc libraries and was driving
me nuts... anyway​:

I had to delete the -Wl,E flags for the linker​: they weren't recognized
both. One test failed, and it was due to an unrecognized "-Wl"​:

lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.................cc1​: unrecognized option `-Wl'
FAILED at test 1

My gcc, ld and as versions​:
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ ld --version
GNU ld 2.11.2
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty.
  Supported emulations​:
  elf32_sparc
  elf64_sparc

$ as --version
GNU assembler 2.11.2
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `sparc-sun-solaris2.8'.

All the three were installed from sunfreeware.

My config.sh is included.

My path was​:
/usr/local/sbin​:/usr/local/bin​:/usr/sbin​:/usr/bin

I hope this helps!

Ciao
Marco

--
Marco Marongiu Email​: bronto@​crs4.it
CRS4 Research Center Phone​: +39 070 2796 336
NCS Division Fax​: +39 070 2796 216
NSM Group WWW​: http​://bugs.unica.it​:4444/

From bronto@crs4.it

#!/bin/sh
#
# This file was produced by running the Configure script. It holds all the
# definitions figured out by Configure. Should you modify one of these values,
# do not forget to propagate your changes by running "Configure -der". You may
# instead choose to run each of the .SH files by yourself, or "Configure -S".
#

# Package name : perl5
# Source directory : .
# Configuration time​: Tue Sep 17 16​:40​:37 MEST 2002
# Configured by : nsm
# Target system : sunos crs4gw 5.8 generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc sunw,ultraax-i2

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tr='tr'
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uidtype='uid_t'
uname='uname'
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usemorebits='undef'
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xlibpth='/usr/lib/386 /lib/386'
xs_apiversion='5.8.0'
yacc='yacc'
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zcat=''
zip='zip'
# Configure command line arguments.
config_arg0='Configure'
config_args='-d -Dcc=gcc'
config_argc=2
config_arg1='-d'
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PERL_REVISION=5
PERL_VERSION=8
PERL_SUBVERSION=0
PERL_API_REVISION=5
PERL_API_VERSION=8
PERL_API_SUBVERSION=0
PERL_PATCHLEVEL=
PERL_CONFIG_SH=true

From bronto@crs4.it

Update​: after removing every "-Wl" in config.sh and reconfiguring, the
compilation went ok and no test failed.

The previous compilation didn't install instead...

--M

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From @doughera88

On 17 Sep 2002, Marco Marongiu wrote​:

I successfully installed Perl 5.8.0 on Solaris 8 with gcc, and GNU
ld/as.

I had to delete the -Wl,E flags for the linker​: they weren't recognized
both. One test failed, and it was due to an unrecognized "-Wl"​:

lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.................cc1​: unrecognized option `-Wl'
FAILED at test 1

My gcc, ld and as versions​:
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2

$ ld --version
GNU ld 2.11.2

Odd. Are you *sure* that ld no longer recognizes -E? Could you check
the output of ld --help?

The other thing I notice is that your config.sh has strange values for
dynamic loading flags​:

  ccdlflags=' -Wl'
  lddlflags=' -Wl -G -L/usr/local/lib'

These should have been -Wl,-E, according to hints/solaris_2.sh. (You may
have manually changed them because of your problem above.) The plain
'-Wl' that you ended up with could well indeed be an unrecognized option
for gcc, and that would explain the Embed test failure. Without knowing
exactly how the ccdlflags got set to the wrong value, it's hard to say
what went wrong.

Lastly, I note that your config.sh file has

  hint='previous'

this means it was saved from a previous run. That's usually ok, but
again, without knowing what happened and what changed between Configure
runs, it's hard to say for sure.

So could you please do the following​:

1. Check (e.g. with ld --help) if, indeed, ld no longer accepts the -E
option.

2. If ld does still accept it, could you please try re-running Configure
in a fresh directory with no old config.sh file around and report back?

Thanks,

  Andy Dougherty doughera@​lafayette.edu

From bronto@crs4.it

Hi Andy

Andy Dougherty (via RT) wrote​:

On 17 Sep 2002, Marco Marongiu wrote​:

I successfully installed Perl 5.8.0 on Solaris 8 with gcc, and GNU
ld/as.

I had to delete the -Wl,E flags for the linker​: they weren't recognized
both. One test failed, and it was due to an unrecognized "-Wl"​:

lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.................cc1​: unrecognized option `-Wl'
FAILED at test 1

My gcc, ld and as versions​:
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2

$ ld --version
GNU ld 2.11.2

Odd. Are you *sure* that ld no longer recognizes -E? Could you check
the output of ld --help?

Oh-oh...
Yes, it supports it​:

  -E, --export-dynamic Export all dynamic symbols

......and that's *really* odd, since the error it gave me was "unrecognized
flag -E" or such... I cleaned up $PATH from any /usr/ccs/* path to be
sure that no strange ld was around. And there isn't another, indeed​:

$ type -a ld
ld is /usr/local/bin/ld

The other thing I notice is that your config.sh has strange values for
dynamic loading flags​:

ccdlflags=' \-Wl'
lddlflags=' \-Wl \-G \-L/usr/local/lib'

These should have been -Wl,-E, according to hints/solaris_2.sh. (You may
have manually changed them because of your problem above.)

Yes, exactly. I sent another mail yesterday about it, you can read it
attached.

So could you please do the following​:

1. Check (e.g. with ld --help) if, indeed, ld no longer accepts the -E
option.

2. If ld does still accept it, could you please try re-running Configure
in a fresh directory with no old config.sh file around and report back?

Ok, sure! I'll send you a report.

Thanks
Marco

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From bronto@crs4.it

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Update: after removing every "-Wl" in config.sh and reconfiguring, the
compilation went ok and no test failed.

The previous compilation didn't install instead...

--M

--
Marco Marongiu Email: bronto@crs4.it
CRS4 Research Center Phone: +39 070 2796 336
NCS Division Fax: +39 070 2796 216
NSM Group WWW: http://bugs.unica.it:4444/

From bronto@crs4.it

Andy Dougherty (via RT) wrote​:

On 17 Sep 2002, Marco Marongiu wrote​:

2. If ld does still accept it, could you please try re-running Configure
in a fresh directory with no old config.sh file around and report back?

Done. It fails, but it's still looking for /usr/ccs/bin/ld!

Here is the output​:

  Making DynaLoader (static)
Writing Makefile for DynaLoader
make[1]​: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/perl-5.8.0/ext/DynaLoader'
make[1]​: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/perl-5.8.0/ext/DynaLoader'
make[1]​: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/perl-5.8.0/ext/DynaLoader'
...../../miniperl "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib"
DynaLoader_pm.PL DynaLoader.pm
...../../miniperl "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib"
XSLoader_pm.PL XSLoader.pm
cp XSLoader.pm ../../lib/XSLoader.pm
cp DynaLoader.pm ../../lib/DynaLoader.pm
AutoSplitting ../../lib/DynaLoader.pm (../../lib/auto/DynaLoader)
rm -f DynaLoader.xs
cp dl_dlopen.xs DynaLoader.xs
...../../miniperl "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib" ../../lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
-noprototypes -typemap ../../lib/ExtUtils/typemap DynaLoader.xs >
DynaLoader.xsc && mv DynaLoader.xsc DynaLoader.c
gcc -c -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-O -DVERSION=\"1.04\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.04\" "-I../.." -DPERL_CORE
-DLIBC="/lib/libc.so" DynaLoader.c
rm -rf ../../lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
/usr/local/bin/ar cr ../../lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a DynaLoader.o
&& : ../../lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
chmod 755 ../../lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
make[1]​: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/perl-5.8.0/ext/DynaLoader'
gcc -o perl -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-E perlmain.o
lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a libperl.a `cat ext.libs` -lsocket
-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
/usr/ccs/bin/ld​: illegal option -- E

Note that $PATH is​:

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin​:/usr/local/bin​:/usr/sbin​:/usr/bin

Hmmmm... A Configure bug?

--M

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@doughera88 - Status changed from 'new' to 'stalled'

From @doughera88

I've set the status to "stalled" here because it's unclear where to
go with it. Although the poster has GNU as and ld installed, his
gcc doesn't appear to be configured to use them. (The final error
message shows that gcc calls /usr/ccs/bin/ld directly.)

Apparently, there is a hints file problem because Configure suggested
the -Wl,-E flags thinking the user was going to use GNU ld. I don't
know exactly how hints/solaris_2.sh got fooled that way.

I'd be inclined to chalk this up as a local misconfiguration except for
the fact that we've gotten a few other gcc-3.x-related solaris reports
which may be related. The hints file logic to figure out which ld is
called may yet need further tuning.

Given the age of this case, I recommend closing it. The reporter's email doesn't even respond at this point so we're never going to hear from them.