Guido van Rossum wrote:
Assuming that the binutils developers do conclude that the -zcombreloc problem is to be fixed, not worked around (as I think they will), there is still one more binutils-related build problem that I encountered with Solaris: At binutils 2.12, the output from "ld -V" changed in a way that invalidated the previous way of testing for the presence of dynamic linking.
Someone--I forget who--gave me a patch that solved the problem; I believe that this patch is necessary to build Python on Solaris with binutils 2.12 or later. Can I ask someone to check whether it is already part of 2.2.2?
I believe it was Martin that provided the patch. And this patch is in 2.2.2. [Guido]
But what if this code is used with a version of binutils prior to 2.12?
On Linux (but I think it's the same on Solaris): [neal@epoch src]$ ld -V GNU ld version 2.11.90.0.8 (with BFD 2.11.90.0.8) [neal@epoch src]$ gcc -Xlinker --help 2>&1 | grep export-dynamic -E, --export-dynamic Export all dynamic symbols Neal