Laviticus Stone <laviticus@xxxxxxx> writes: > I'm trying to compile glib-2 from netbsd pkgsrc on solaris and > receive this error. I don't understand why it says unknown file type > when the ld man page says that the file option to > --retain-symbols-file is supposed to just be a flat file. Please help! > -Wl,-retain-symbols-file -Wl,.libs/libglib-2.0.exp -o > .libs/libglib-2.0.so.0.2600.1 > ld: fatal: file .libs/libglib-2.0.exp: unknown file type > ld: fatal: file processing errors. No output written to > .libs/libglib-2.0.so.0.2600.1 These errors do not appear to be coming from the GNU linker. I suspect that you are using the Solaris linker, and I suspect that it is interpreting -retain-symbols-file as -r -e etain-symbols-file and then treating .libs/libglib-2.0.exp as an input file. If you want to use -retain-symbols-file, you need to use the GNU linker, not the Solaris linker. Ian
