installing problem on SUN-sparc2

[Joachim Wiesel]

According to Darrell McCauley:
> 
> 
> [replies directed to grassp-list]
> 
> > % man dlsym
> > 
> > DLOPEN(3X)       MISCELLANEOUS LIBRARY FUNCTIONS       DLOPEN(3X)
> > 
> > 
> > NAME
> >      dlopen, dlsym, dlerror, dlclose - simple programmatic inter-
> *>      face to the dynamic linker             (problemmattic?)
> > 
> >      These functions are obtained by specifying -ldl as an option
> >      to ld(1).
> 
> 
> Peter, 
> 
> I've noticed this with compilation of other software and have never seen
> this problem before Sun OS 4.1.1, but the work around is to edit the
> Gmakefile in the directory where it bombed and add the -ldl in the
> appropriate spot.  If you find this problem with other directories, 
> then you may want to edit src/CMD/head/*
> 
> Can someone check the bug list for Sun OS 4.1.1 and see if this is
> on there?

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As far as I can tell you ... this is a 'ld' bug introduced at Sunos 4.1.2.
There should be a bug fix for that from SUN (or use the 4.1.1 ld ...).

Joachim


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