I hit the exact same problem on Solaris 8/9/10 and simply tossed it over my shoulder and ignored it for a while. I know that some folks will say "use gas/gld from binutils" however that simply is not reasonable on Solaris systems. Dennis ps: sorry for the top post > I've hit a build problem when upgrading from 4.7.0 to 4.7.1. I'm using > the same build recipe[1], so it's most probably a change in GCC code. > The immediate error I'm hitting is this: > > rm -f rts/libgna*.so > cd rts; `echo > "/home/raos/mgar/gcc4/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/objdir/./gcc/xgcc > -B/home/raos/mgar/gcc4/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/objdir/./gcc/ > -B/opt/csw/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/bin/ > -B/opt/csw/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/lib/ -isystem > /opt/csw/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/include -isystem > /opt/csw/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/sys-include " \ > | sed -e 's,\./xgcc,../../xgcc,' -e > 's,-B\./,-B../../,'` -shared -g -O2 \ > -fPIC \ > -o libgnat-4.7.so \ > a-assert.o (...) raise-gcc.o \ > -Wl,-h,libgnat-4.7.so \ > -lposix4 -lnsl -lsocket -lm > Text relocation remains referenced > against symbol offset in file > <unknown> 0x0 raise-gcc.o > (...many, many lines...) > memcpy 0x4c sysdep.o > ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > gmake[5]: *** [gnatlib-shared-default] Error 1 > gmake[5]: Leaving directory > `/home/raos/mgar/gcc4/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/objdir/gcc/ada' > gmake[4]: *** [gnatlib-shared-dual] Error 2 > > From asking around so far, it's similar to this minimal example: > > static int c = 1; > > int f(int a) { > return a+c; > } > > gcc -shared -o liba.so liba.c > > Text relocation remains referenced > against symbol offset in file > c 0x4 /var/tmp//ccqHaWcX.o > ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > In this case, the fix is to add -fpic to the invocation. But in the > build logs I do see -fPIC, and it still fails, so I'm not sure if it's > really the same kind of problem. > > Has anyone else encountered this error? > > Maciej > > [1] > https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/gcc4/trunk/Makefile >