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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2003-01-03 16:26:23 +0000
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2003-01-03 16:26:23 +0000
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qualify known Solaris versions related to the binutils breakage.
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@@ -271,8 +271,11 @@ Solaris: When using Sun's C compiler with threads, at least on Solaris
versions built using it. This mistakenly enables the
-zcombreloc option which creates broken shared libraries on
Solaris. binutils 2.12 works, and the binutils maintainers
- are aware of the problem. Binutils 2.13.1 only partially fixed
- things. It appears that 2.13.2 solves the problem completely.
+ are aware of the problem. Binutils 2.13.1 only partially
+ fixed things. It appears that 2.13.2 solves the problem
+ completely. This problem is known to occur with Solaris 2.7
+ and 2.8, but may also affect earlier and later versions of the
+ OS.
When the dynamic loader complains about errors finding shared
libraries, such as