From 0dea8d9ecfeb1c983636df395c6c1495af2c751f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ebotcazou Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:12:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * doc/install.texi (*-*-solaris2*): Document recommended version of GNU binutils and mention GNU linker problem on Solaris 10. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@102094 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4 --- gcc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ gcc/doc/install.texi | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index a9faa79a611..5ead4550bda 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-07-16 Eric Botcazou + + * doc/install.texi (*-*-solaris2*): Document recommended version + of GNU binutils and mention GNU linker problem on Solaris 10. + 2005-07-16 Joseph S. Myers PR c/22421 diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 5ad9893ed98..e0362635da0 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -3575,6 +3575,14 @@ from the CVS repository or applying the patch @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils-cvs/2004-09/msg00036.html} to the release. +We recommend using GNU binutils 2.16 or later in conjunction with GCC 4.x. +However, for Solaris 10 and above, an additional patch is required in order +for the GNU linker to be able to cope with a new flavor of shared libraries. +You can obtain a working version by checking out the binutils-2_16-branch +from the CVS repository or applying the patch +@uref{http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2005-07/msg00122.html} to the +release. + Sun bug 4296832 turns up when compiling X11 headers with GCC 2.95 or newer: @command{g++} will complain that types are missing. These headers assume that omitting the type means @code{int}; this assumption worked for C89 but -- 2.11.4.GIT