Comment author: administrator

Here:

• gcc -Wl,-E -o montop -I/usr/local/lib/ocaml-3.04 /tmp/camlprim0.c
  -L/usr/local/lib/ocaml-3.04 -lnums -lcamlrun -lresolv -lm -ldl -lcurses
  This may be a local installation mistake. Our engineer is going to
  recompile
  ocamlmktop.

I don't think this will help. There seems to be a bug in Ocaml's
configure script which adds -Wl,-E to the linker flags. However, the
Solaris linker (at least under 2.6 and 2.7) does not accept the -E
flag.

Yes, Solaris' ld uses -R, but the GNU linker uses -E. Of course, both
go under the same name "ld". Someone deserves to be shot.
At any rate, the OCaml configure script tries very hard to figure out
the "gender" of the linker, but funny things can happen if e.g. users
changes the order of directories in their PATH...

• Xavier Leroy

Comment author: administrator

The configure script does the right thing.

Comment author: administrator

Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:53:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From: wlux@uni-muenster.de

Francois Thomasset wrote:

This may be a local installation mistake.
It was.
Our engineer is going to recompile ocamlmktop.
I did (ocamlmktop is a script, I recompiled everything, in fact).
I don't think this will help.
It did.
There seems to be a bug in Ocaml's configure script which adds
-Wl,-E to the linker flags.
Well, perhaps the other day, but not today :-)

Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:00:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From: xavier.leroy@inria.fr

At any rate, the OCaml configure script tries very hard to figure
Yes.
out the "gender" of the linker, but funny things can happen if
e.g. users changes the order of directories in their PATH...
I never do that, of course :-) -- probably something much more
perverse.

Sorry for the wasted time,
Bruno.