Hello, I wanted to build 32 and 64 bit binaries of perl under OpenSolaris. I am suing gcc that was configured as shown below: $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.11/4.5.2/lto-wrapper Target: i386-pc-solaris2.11 ÎÏÎÎ ÏÏÎÎÎÏÏÎÎ ÎÎ: ../gcc-4.5.2/configure --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.5.2 --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-libtool-lock --target= --enable-objc-gc --disable-libada --enable-libssp --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-threads=posix --enable-tls=yes --with-system-zlib --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --with-gnu-as --with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas --with-gmp-lib=/usr/lib --with-mpfr-lib=/usr/lib --enable-c99 --enable-nls --enable-wchar_t --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt --with-pic --enable-multilib ÎÎÎÏÎÎÎ ÎÎÎÎÏÏÎ: posix gcc version 4.5.2 (GCC) The 32bit was easy and works as it should. However, the 64bit does not compile and it stops with the following error message: ./perl -f -Ilib pod/buildtoc --build-toc -q Can't load 'lib/auto/re/re.so' for module re: ld.so.1: perl: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_PC32: file lib/auto/re/re.so: symbol main: value 0x28006b7dd34 does not fit at lib/XSLoader.pm line 70. I did a Google search and I had found out that this error message is produced when the compile tries to link position dependent code into a shared object. According to the GCC manual one needs to specify the -fPIC flag to ensure that position independent code is produced. In my case, the perl configuration script says that it will use this flag by default and it is used yet it does not help. Also, the -mimpure-text does not help when used when linking. So can anybody suggest a way to deal with this problem? Note that solstudio12.2 compiles perl with no problem, but there are a number of things that cannot be compiled with solstudio12.2. Regards, Apostolos
