Re: 4.7.1 on Solaris 10: ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 06/18/2012 08:09 PM, Maciej (Matchek) BliziÅ?ski wrote:
>
> <snip build error>
> I see the same error on Solaris 8/x86.
>
> <snip example>
>> 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.
>>
> Look closer in the buildlogs, you'll see that the objects that it is
> complaining about where not built with a pic flag.
>
> The most likely candidate for having caused this break is this patch:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=e8641b7435587c748491cc82c038ebcf41e6d4b6
>
> It touches the picflags in the Ada subdir.
>
> The fix is probably this commit that was made after 4.7.1 was tagged:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=176ff0f9a1016553978d6cf41770703e2ad90958
>
> I'm starting a build now with this patch included, but it will be some
> hours before I have a result.
>

Thank you very much Tom. I generally go looking for your results as a
comparison to see if I am heading in the right direction.  Having
independant results is a "good thing".

Dennis Clarke