From 780b8de5afee317d693ee4bba946c443ed15713d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: skimo Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:32:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add some notes on Solaris --- build.unix/README.Solaris | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 build.unix/README.Solaris diff --git a/build.unix/README.Solaris b/build.unix/README.Solaris new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c2a73447 --- /dev/null +++ b/build.unix/README.Solaris @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +There are some known problems with Solaris curses. +Please give ncurses a try when you encounter a screen output problem. + +Apparently, the more recent Solaris compilers invoke the incremental linker, +`ild', when the "-g" option is used and one or more "xxx.o" files are +specified on the command line during the link phase. Unfortunately, the +executable produced is up to 3-4 times as big as an executable generated +by the standard linker `ld'. +You can bypass this by adding "-xildoff" to LDFLAGS or by +setting CFLAGS (to something that does not contain "-g"). -- 2.11.4.GIT