Xapian discuss - Dec 2007 - Problems compiling xapian-core to run omega, SunOS

Hello xapian users, 

 

The server I'm compiling on is a little odd.  SunOS on a sun4
architecture. 

 

Fails when linking, gives the following, 

 

memcpy                              0x10
/usr/local/gcc-3.3.2/lib/./libstdc++.a(ctype.o)

ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable
sections

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

*** Error code 1

make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `libxapian.la'

Current working directory
/Net/www/webdata/htdocs/UCB/StudentGroups/cogsci/xapian-core-1.0.4

*** Error code 1

make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'

Current working directory
/Net/www/webdata/htdocs/UCB/StudentGroups/cogsci/xapian-core-1.0.4

*** Error code 1

make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'

 

 

Apologies if this is out of place for this list. 

 

- Craig

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:11:57PM -0700, Craig M Talbert
wrote:
> The server I'm compiling on is a little odd.  SunOS on a sun4
> architecture. 
> 
> Fails when linking, gives the following, 
Hmm, can you build other C++ software?
> memcpy                              0x10
> /usr/local/gcc-3.3.2/lib/./libstdc++.a(ctype.o)
Is there any error output before this?
> ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable
> sections
I don't have access to any sparc machines since sourceforge killed their
compile farm, but googling for that error message suggests that you
might have more success using GNU ld:

http://www.filibeto.org/pipermail/solaris-users/2004-March/000660.html

Other hits suggest it might be related to trying to link with static
libraries when compiling a shared library, in which case you could
either try to rebuild GCC with a shared libstdc++, or build xapian-core
only as a static library using:

./configure --disable-shared

Cheers,
    Olly

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 10:38:44AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> Other hits suggest it might be related to trying to link with static
> libraries when compiling a shared library, in which case you could
> either try to rebuild GCC with a shared libstdc++, or build xapian-core
> only as a static library using:
> 
> ./configure --disable-shared
We had a number of problems with shared libraries on earlier versions
of Solaris (8 & 9 I believe), so going fully static may help in
general (tests were failing otherwise, from what I remember).

J

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