2009/5/5 Rainer Orth: > Ian Lance Taylor writes: > >> Thanks for investigating this. It sounds to me like you are saying that >> gcc/configure.ac is incorrect in assuming that the i686-pc-solaris2.10 >> linker always supports hidden symbols. If that is correct, then it >> seems like a bug report would be appropriate. > > I could just reproduce the problem on mainline with a C-only build. I've > got to further investigate what's going on here. I'm pretty sure the > linker isn't the culprit, though: before I made the change, I verified with > the Sun linker maintainers that .hidden support had been added to ld back > in Solaris 9 days, and since there is only one ld, this cannot be the > difference between the i386 (default) and i686 builds. Hi Rainer, I'm afraid I missed your reply today and went ahead and opened http://gcc.gnu.org/PR40027 - and blamed the linker, feel free to correct my ignorant guesses in that report :-) > This make take a few days, though. No problem, I'm not in a hurry for an answer, I was just updating my build scripts for 4.4, but wasn't planning to use it until 4.4.1 at least. Thanks for looking into it, Jonathan