Re: 1 test ( tests/mdemo2-make.test ) fails on Solaris 10

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> BTW, the home directories of users on the machine where I was playing with 
> libtool are public, so you can look at where I built it, see every file 
> created, download them if you want.
>
> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/libtool-2.2.6/

> From this I can see that you are using GNU ld:

configure:4645: checking for ld used by gcc
configure:4712: result: /home/kirkby/bin/ld
configure:4721: checking if the linker (/home/kirkby/bin/ld) is GNU ld
configure:4736: result: yes

I think that besides these extra gripes you will find the annoyance 
factor of GNU ld increases once you see how it behaves when performing 
64-bit builds, or discover that the Sun compiler is not able to use 
the libraries output by GCC due to the injection of additional 
symbols.

Bob
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