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diff --git a/README.solaris b/README.solaris index 47338b6ef9..202c8ff695 100644 --- a/README.solaris +++ b/README.solaris @@ -233,6 +233,16 @@ You may have to manually edit config.sh and add the -Wl,-E flags yourself, or else run Configure interactively and add the flags at the appropriate prompts. +In SunOS 4.x you most probably want to use the SunOS ld, /usr/bin/ld, +since the more recent versions of GNU ld (like 2.13) do not seem to +work for building Perl anymore. When linking the extensions, the +GNU ld gets very unhappy and spews a lot of errors like this + + ... relocation truncated to fit: BASE13 ... + +and dies. Therefore the SunOS 4.1 hints file explicitly sets the +ld to be /usr/bin/ld. + If your gcc is configured to use GNU as and ld but you want to use the Solaris ones instead to build perl, then you'll need to add -B/usr/ccs/bin/ to the gcc command line. One convenient way to do |