On 12/ 1/10 08:07 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
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
Ah you are correct. I had that issue in the past although at a different
point in compilation, it had seemed with the current pkgsrc from netbsd
and current Solaris 11 I had bypassed the issue. a type -P ld or which
ld shows it as /usr/gnu/bin/ld although the pkgsrc bootstrap must have
picked up on /usr/bin/ld somehow. I'll have to debug that.
Thanks.
