#12460: Solaris linker does not recognize option --gc-sections -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: herzen | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1 (Linking) | Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Solaris | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: Other | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by herzen): Replying to [comment:4 bgamari]:
herzen, where does your `ld` come from? Presumably it's not a gnu ld
Oops, I didn't know about "ghc --info". Yes, it turns out that the ld that was being used was gnu ld. When I change that to Solaris's ld (/usr/bin/ld), the behavior I reported as a bug goes away. My mistake was to assume that the option --with-ld passed to ./configure has no effect, because I was dealing with a prebuilt binary of ghc, as opposed to building it myself. I was packaging the prebuilt binary using Solaris's build system called pkgbuild, which is derived from rpmbuild. The way we use that build system is by having a PATH in which /usr/gnu/bin is in front of /usr/bin; that is why gnu ld was getting picked up instead of Solaris ld. The spec file I was working with, which was written by someone else and actually built ghc, supplied --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld to ./configure, but I deleted that, because I didn't think it made a difference for what I was doing, as I said. It was sloppy of me to file a bug report instead of making sure that Solaris ld was being used, as I had assumed. I could paste what "ghc --info" produces, but I don't think there's any point now. '''kgardas''' noted above that he makes his builds on Solaris 11.2. I will go on investigating whether I run into problems with his builds on 11.3. (I have set up a Solaris 11.2 system, in case I need to compare what happens between the two Solaris releases.) Thank you very much for your suggestion. I should have thought of that myself. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12460#comment:5 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler