Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
I'm taking a minimal look at OpenSXCE, which is a compilation of Illumos
(formerly Open Solaris 11 etc.) for SPARC. I've already got SPARC
Solaris 10 running, so am able to see what's different rather than being
confused by a completely unfamiliar platform.
With a fairly complete installation (i.e. including GNU binutils etc.)
and FPC 2.6.4 built on a Solaris 10 system, compiling a trivial program
results in
/usr/bin/gld:built in linker script:21: syntax error
I can see that there's been various discussion of this sort of thing
before, with truncated/missing linker scripts being implicated (i.e.
it's not really an FPC problem). In this case, it appears that none of
the linker script files are being opened, and I find that if I put an
explicit
-k-T/usr/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.11/lib/ldscripts/elf32_sparc.x
in /etc/fpc.cfg I can build simple test programs. If anybody understands
what's going on, can they confirm that this is an appropriate file to use?
Using FPC 2.6.4, if I try building 2.7.1 it runs most of the way through
provided that I put the above hack on the command line to accommodate
cases where fpc.cfg is not being used. However it eventually fails with
/usr/bin/gar: creating libpfpmake.a
Linking fpmake
/usr/bin/gld: internal error ldlang.c 4884
fpmake.pp(49) Error: Error while linking
Can anybody suggest why fpmake is pushing gld into this kind of error,
and can it be disabled? (I note that 2.6.4 barfs on fastcgi earlier in
the build sequence because the -k-T hasn't been passed through, I
presume this has been fixed for 2.7.1.)
I was hoping to be able to investigate whether Lazarus would run on this
system, since gtk etc. is a much later version than the one with Solaris
10 including more complete Unicode support etc. However in view of the
proprietary nature of both Solaris and SPARC I'm not proposing to put
much time into it- unless of course the existing problems turn out to be
trivial.
That particular machine self-destructed, so I don't have an adequate
record of what versions of gld/ld were installed. A rebuilt system using
the SunFreeware libraries etc. (which are for Solaris 10 rather than 11)
appears to be OK, except that SunFreeware binutils installs ld (not gld)
in /usr/local/bin which has the result that an older (buggy) version of
gld is picked up by FPC before the correct one. Creating symlinks
/usr/local/bin/gld etc. appears to fix the problem.
I'm currently trying to put some minor updates into
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_on_Solaris in case anybody
else is still interested.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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