Rob Andrews <rob_at_cyberpunkz.org> wrote:

> As I had already responded in private message.
>
> The default ld in Solaris is for the Sun version of cc. Therefore
> the correct way to fix this problem if you are using gcc to compile
> curl on solaris is to define gld as the linker instead of ld or
> to remove ld from the system altogether and to create a link to
> gld for ld. This is the only correct solution for this problem
> as you do not use the sun ld with gcc at any time since it breaks
> software compiled on the system.
>
> Sorry but your fix is completely incorrect. This has been an ongoing
> problem as Solaris takes on more GNU based software into the core
> install.
>

A good pseudo fix would be to libtool, in the top of the curl directory:

GLD=`which gld`;

if [ -n $GLD ]; then
 LD=$GLD;
else
 LD=/usr/ccs/bin/ld;
fi;

 james

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