[Image-SIG] error compiling PIL 1.1.4 on Solaris 2.8 with python 2.2.3

[Ziying Sherwin]

We are trying to build Python Imaging Library(PIL 1.1.4) with Python 2.2.3 and 
gcc 3.3 on our Solaris 2.8 machine. Everything went on smoothly until when we 
tried to build dynamic library at the top level directory. We got the following
error messages:

gcc -shared  ./_imaging.o ./decode.o ./encode.o ./map.o ./display.o ./outline.o ./path.o  libImaging/libImaging.a -L/depot/lib -ljpeg -L/depot/lib -lz  -o ./_imaging.so
Text relocation remains                         referenced
    against symbol                  offset      in file
<unknown>                           0x168       libImaging/libImaging.a(Unpack.o)
<unknown>                           0x16c       libImaging/libImaging.a(Unpack.o)
<unknown>                           0x170       libImaging/libImaging.a(Unpack.o)
<unknown>                           0x174       libImaging/libImaging.a(Unpack.o)
<unknown>                           0x178      
....
libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipDecode.o)
inflateInit_                        0xa4        libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipDecode.o)
inflateEnd                          0x410       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipDecode.o)
<unknown>                           0x178       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipEncode.o)
<unknown>                           0x17c       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipEncode.o)
deflateInit2_                       0x194       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipEncode.o)
deflate                             0x70c       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipEncode.o)
deflate                             0x7b8       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipEncode.o)
ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `_imaging.so'

So we have to manually compile the dynamic library by using the command:

ld -G  ./decode.o ./encode.o ./map.o ./display.o ./outline.o ./path.o -L./libImaging  -L/depot/lib -R/depot/lib -ljpeg -L/depot/lib -lz  -o ./_imaging.so ./_imaging.o -lImaging -lc -L/depot/package/python_2.2.3/lib/python2.2/config -lpython2.2 -lm -ldl

It compiled, but if we tried to test the build by import the library, we got
the following error message:

nob[root]csh:410>nob[root]csh:410>python
Python 2.2.3 (#6, Jun 26 2003, 17:11:25) 
[GCC 3.3] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import _imaging
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file ./_imaging.so: symbol deflateSetDictionary: referenced symbol not found

Any ideas how we can fix it? Thanks in advance.

Ziying Sherwin