On 11/1/08, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@web.de> wrote:
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>  Am 31.10.2008 um 22:27 schrieb Blue Swirl:
>
>
> > On 10/31/08, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@web.de> wrote:
> >
> > > The following addition to configure at r5241 causes linking to fail on
> > > OpenSolaris/amd64:
> > >
> > > if ld --version 2>/dev/null | grep -q "GNU ld" ; then
> > >  LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,--warn-common"
> > > fi
> > >
> > > Contrary to Solaris 10, OpenSolaris does use GNU ld. Might --warn-common
> > > require an ld version newer than 2.15, or is this platform-dependent?
> > >
> >
> > According to binutils changelog, --warn-common was added in 1993, so
> > maybe the platform breaks that. What does your ld print with ld
> > --version?
> >
>
>  GNU ld version 2.15
>  Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  This program is free software; [...]
>
>  So definitely past 1993. Any thoughts what to check for?
>
>
> >
> >
> > > Previously I had also reported that Solaris 10's grep rejects -q. Could
> we
> > > use `grep "GNU ld" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null` instead?
> > >
> >
> > Sure.
> >
>
>  I'll prepare a patch for that part then.

Does this one work?