On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Armel Asselin wrote:

> after some investigation, it seems that my real problem is that ./configure
> thinks that gcc uses GNU ld but on Sun Solaris it is not recommended, so gcc
> uses the host ld... which does not support soname, does not like at all
> visbility hidden stuff... is it possible? (that ./configure fails to
> recognize that it is NOT gld but a poor old sun ld) because of this it also
> tries to use -rpath (which is -R on Sun ld)

Well yes, it could probably be so. The tests that check for what linker your
gcc uses are autoconf's (libtool's?) own and nothing we wrote.

What happens if you run configure --without-gnu-ld ?

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