[kde-solaris] bzip2 for KDE3 on Solaris 8

[Wout Mertens]

Ok. Seems to me the test in configure needs to be fixed for Solaris at
least.

Let's open a bug, but first, let's decide if the $lt_prog_compiler_pic
option has to be added (==-fPIC for gcc) or the -shared should be dropped?

Wout.

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, M Hawkins wrote:

>
> On Friday 31 Jan 2003 11:23 am, Wout Mertens wrote:
> > Related problem:
> >
> > I built the shared .so myself, with the proposed changes in
> > README.COMPILE_ERRORS<...>. The configure test for BZ2_... is broken on
> > Solaris: When it runs, it fails with a 'relocation remains on readonly
> > segments' error from ld. This error only exists on Solaris, and it means
> > that the test file has to be built with -fPIC as well.
> >
> > Has anybody had the same problem or is it just me and am I wrong?
> >
>
> I had the same problem, it seems to be that the test is being compiled with
> the -shared flag.  This is causing the linker to add a -z text option.
>
> I fixed the problem by commenting out the line in the configure script that
> says:
>
> 	cxx_shared_flag="-shared"
>
> Which is just before the bzip check section at about line 35867
>
> > Wout.
> >
>
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