Re: CVS build for Solaris 5.8 fails

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Klaus Zeitler <kzeitler@alcatel-lucent.com> writes:

  > Hello,
  > 
  > build of emacs 23 for Solaris 5.8 fails with the following error:
  > 
  > --- snip ---
  > 
  > gcc  -L/usr/ccs/lib `./prefix-args -Xlinker -R/usr/openwin/lib -R/usr/local/gnu/lib -R/opt/exp/gnu/lib -R/opt/exp/lib -R/opt/exp/lib/xpm/lib` `{ set x 1; test "$2" = "USE_MOTIF"; } || echo ' -R/usr/dt/lib -L/usr/dt/lib'` -L/usr/openwin/lib -L/usr/local/gnu/lib -L/opt/exp/gnu/lib -L/opt/exp/lib -L/opt/exp/lib/xpm/lib -o temacs  dispnew.o frame.o scroll.o xdisp.o menu.o xmenu.o window.o charset.o coding.o category.o ccl.o character.o chartab.o cm.o term.o terminal.o xfaces.o xterm.o xfns.o xselect.o xrdb.o fontset.o xsmfns.o fringe.o image.o   emacs.o keyboard.o macros.o keymap.o sysdep.o buffer.o filelock.o insdel.o marker.o minibuf.o fileio.o dired.o filemode.o cmds.o casetab.o casefiddle.o indent.o search.o regex.o undo.o alloc.o data.o doc.o editfns.o callint.o eval.o floatfns.o fns.o font.o print.o lread.o syntax.o unexsol.o bytecode.o process.o callproc.o region-cache.o sound.o atimer.o doprnt.o strftime.o intervals.o textprop.o composite.o md5.o    xfont.o ftfont.o xftfont.o ftxfont.o terminfo.o lastfile.o  widget.o mktime.o   ../lwlib/liblw.a -L/usr/openwin/lib -L/usr/local/gnu/lib -L/opt/exp/gnu/lib -L/opt/exp/lib -L/opt/exp/lib/xpm/lib -lXm -lgen -lXp -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng -lz -lm -lgif -lXpm -lX11 -R/usr/openwin/lib -L/opt/exp/gnu/lib -L/opt/exp/gnu/lib -L/usr/openwin/lib -lXft -lfreetype -lXrender -lX11 -lfontconfig    -lresolv -lsocket -lnsl -lkstat -lcurses -lkstat  -lm 
  > Undefined                       first referenced
  >  symbol                             in file
  > dldump                              unexsol.o  (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
  > dlerror                             unexsol.o  (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libdl.so.1)
  > ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to temacs
  > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
  > make[2]: *** [temacs] Error 1
  > 
  > --- snip ---
  > 
  > When I compared with emacs 22.2, I noticed that the CVS version is using
  > unexsol.c, whereas 22.2 is using unexelf.c.
  > 
  > I've fixed this by adding '-ldl' to the libraries in src/Makefile:
  > 
  > LIBES = $(LOADLIBES) $(LIBS) $(LIBX) $(LIBSOUND) $(RSVG_LIBS) $(DBUS_LIBS)
  > -lresolv -lsocket -lnsl -lkstat -lcurses $(GETLOADAVG_LIBS) $(GNULIB_VAR) -lm
  > $(GNULIB_VAR) -ldl

Very strange, Solaris 5.8 should use unexelf.  Did you run "configure" ?