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Author	skip.montanaro
Recipients	MrJean1, loewis, mark.dickinson, skip.montanaro, terry.reedy
Date	2008-06-30.01:07:00
SpamBayes Score	0.014523839
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<1214788022.11.0.575591888453.issue3167@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I tried to configure with '-Xlinker -xlibmieee' added to LDFLAGS. Failed miserably. In fact, configure complained that my compiler couldn't create executables, told me to look at config.log for details then logged me out from the machine! It would appear gcc really doesn't like that combination: ... configure:2676: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:2703: gcc -I/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.6/include - I/opt/app/nonc++/ncu rses-5.6/include/ncurses -I/opt/app/nonc++/gdbm-1.8/include - I/opt/app/nonc++/re adline-4.3/include -I/opt/app/nonc++/tcl-8.4/include - I/opt/app/nonc++/BerkleyDB -4.3/include -L/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.6/lib -R/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses- 5.6/lib -L/opt/app/nonc++/gdbm-1.8/lib -R/opt/app/nonc++/gdbm-1.8/lib - L/opt/app/nonc++ /readline-4.3/lib -R/opt/app/nonc++/readline-4.3/lib -L/opt/app/nonc++/tcl- 8.4/l ib -R/opt/app/nonc++/tcl-8.4/lib -L/opt/app/nonc++/BerkleyDB-4.3/lib - R/opt/app/ nonc++/BerkleyDB-4.3/lib -Xlinker -xlibmieee conftest.c >&5 /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- x usage: ld [-6:abc:d:e:f:h:il:mo:p:rstu:z:B:CD:F:GI:L:M:N:P:Q:R:S:VY:?] file(s) [-64] enforce a 64-bit link-edit [-a] create an absolute file [-b] do not do special PIC relocations in a.out [-B direct \| nodirect] establish direct bindings, or inhibit direct binding to, the object being created ... Skip

I tried to configure with '-Xlinker -xlibmieee' added to LDFLAGS.  Failed 
miserably.  In fact, configure complained that my compiler couldn't create 
executables, told me to look at config.log for details then logged me out 
from the machine!  It would appear gcc *really* doesn't like that 
combination:

...
configure:2676: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2703: gcc  -I/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.6/include -
I/opt/app/nonc++/ncu
rses-5.6/include/ncurses -I/opt/app/nonc++/gdbm-1.8/include -
I/opt/app/nonc++/re
adline-4.3/include -I/opt/app/nonc++/tcl-8.4/include -
I/opt/app/nonc++/BerkleyDB
-4.3/include -L/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.6/lib -R/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-
5.6/lib
 -L/opt/app/nonc++/gdbm-1.8/lib -R/opt/app/nonc++/gdbm-1.8/lib -
L/opt/app/nonc++
/readline-4.3/lib -R/opt/app/nonc++/readline-4.3/lib -L/opt/app/nonc++/tcl-
8.4/l
ib -R/opt/app/nonc++/tcl-8.4/lib -L/opt/app/nonc++/BerkleyDB-4.3/lib -
R/opt/app/
nonc++/BerkleyDB-4.3/lib -Xlinker -xlibmieee conftest.c  >&5
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- x
usage: ld [-6:abc:d:e:f:h:il:mo:p:rstu:z:B:CD:F:GI:L:M:N:P:Q:R:S:VY:?] 
file(s)
        [-64]           enforce a 64-bit link-edit
        [-a]            create an absolute file
        [-b]            do not do special PIC relocations in a.out
        [-B direct | nodirect]
                        establish direct bindings, or inhibit direct binding
                        to, the object being created
...

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History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-06-30 01:07:02	skip.montanaro	set	spambayes_score: 0.0145238 -> 0.014523839 recipients: + skip.montanaro, loewis, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, MrJean1
2008-06-30 01:07:02	skip.montanaro	set	spambayes_score: 0.0145238 -> 0.0145238 messageid: <1214788022.11.0.575591888453.issue3167@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-06-30 01:07:01	skip.montanaro	link	issue3167 messages
2008-06-30 01:07:00	skip.montanaro	create