Bug 5639 - Build breaks with Solaris linker
Summary: Build breaks with Solaris linker
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5730
Alias: None
Product: Samba 3.2
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Build environment (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2.0
Hardware: x64 Solaris
: P3 major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Samba Bugzilla Account
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2008-07-28 10:12 UTC by David Eisner
Modified: 2008-10-27 06:38 UTC (History)
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Description David Eisner 2008-07-28 10:12:39 UTC
When I try to build Samba 3.2.0 on Solaris 10 with the with the Sun Studio C compiler (cc), it dies almost immediately with this error:

  Linking shared library bin/libtalloc.so
  /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- version-script
 usage: ld [-6:abc:d:e:f:h:il:mo:p:rstu:z:B:CD:F:GI:L:M:N:P:Q:R:S:VY:?] file(s)
         [-64]           enforce a 64-bit link-edit
         [-a]            create an absolute file
         [-b]            do not do special PIC relocations in a.out

.. and so on.

The problem is that the Solaris ld does not understand
--version-script: that's specific to the GNU linker.  Looking in the
Makefile, I find the problem here:

  ## Dynamic shared libraries build settings
  DSO_EXPORTS_CMD=-Wl,--version-script,$(srcdir)/exports/`basename $@
| sed 's/so$$/syms/'`

This is hard-coded into Makefile.in; it's not generated by the
configure script.  Unless I'm missing something (which is quite
possible), I don't see how this could work with the Solaris linker.
Comment 1 David Eisner 2008-07-29 17:39:29 UTC
Correction: The DSO_EXPORTS_CMD is hardcoded into Makefile.in, but DSO_EXPORT, which is what is used in the make target, comes from configure.  If the Solaris ld is found in the PATH before the GNU ld at configure time, there won't be any problems.  

I suppose the most correct thing to do is to see which compiler is being used and deduce the linker, regardless of the path, but I don't know if that's possible.

Comment 2 David Eisner 2008-07-29 17:43:00 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Correction: The DSO_EXPORTS_CMD is hardcoded into Makefile.in, but DSO_EXPORT,

That should read "DSO_EXPORTS", with an 'S' at the end.

Comment 3 Michael Adam 2008-10-27 06:38:15 UTC
The problem has been analyzed in (later) bug #5730.
Marking this as a duplicate.

The problem is that gcc is configured to use the solaris linker, while
the gnu linker is found first in the PATH. A workaround is proposed
in bug #5730. An approach for detecting the ld that gcc uses is
propose in bug #5361 which is the same bug for samba 3.0.28a.

Michael

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5730 ***