hmm. I've not had problems with building libtool on 1.4.2 sparc, but I
have replaced /usr/lib/c++rt0.o with a -fPIC version.  This was needed for
a good bit of pkgsrc.  There was a PR on this and the PIC version is
available at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/c++rt0/

that said, I don't see that /usr/lib/c++rt0.o gets in to your problem, but
since thats the only thing non-standard thing on my sparc, it may be worth
a shot.

-Dan


On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Devin L. Ganger wrote:
> 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I was trying to install slrn-0.9.6.2 on my shiny new NetBSD 1.4.2
> > install via pkgsrc (downloaded on 11 Aug 2000, 0558 PST), and ran into
> > problems compiling some of the dependencies (slrn 0.9.6.2 depends on
> > slang-1.4.1, and slang depends on libtool-1.3.5).
> > 
> > Specifically, libtool-1.3.5 is bombing out on the following:
> > 
> > updating cache .././config.cache
> > creating ./config.status
> > /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile
> > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -O2 -c ltdl.c
> > mkdir .libs
> > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -O2 -c ltdl.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o
> > .libs/ltdl.lo
> > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -O2 -c ltdl.c -o ltdl.o >/dev/null 2>&1
> > mv -f .libs/ltdl.lo ltdl.lo
> > /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link
> > cc  -O2 -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/
> > lib -o libltdl.la -rpath /usr/pkg/lib -version-info 1:2:1 ltdl.lo
> > rm -fr .libs/libltdl.la .libs/libltdl.* .libs/libltdl.*
> > cc -shared -o .libs/libltdl.so.1.2
> >  ltdl.lo   -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib
> > ld: ltdl.lo: illegal reloc type mix
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > I have no clue what could be causing this.  This is a fresh install of
> > NetBSD 1.4.2 sparc, done on 11 Aug 2000, via miniroot and ftp.  I've
> > included the dmesg output and the full error output from the initial
> > make-install command for slrn, in the hopes they'll give some clues.
> 
> I'm not certain this information will be of much help.
> 
> The problem you are seeing is due to conflicts between code that is
> compiled with different PIC models.  Apparently the a.out toolchains
> cannot link files that are compiled with -fpic with files that are
> compiled with -fPIC.  There may be similar conflicts with code that
> compiled absolute (not -fpic nor -fPIC).  
> 
> It appears that ltdl.lo is being compiled with -fPIC.  Then the command:
> 
> cc -shared -o .libs/libltdl.so.1.2 ltdl.lo   -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib
> -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib
> 
> is being used to create the shared library.  Try running that with `-v' to
> see what the linker is really getting.  I suspect it is trying to link the
> shared library against libc.so.  AFAIK libc.so is compiled -fpic.
> 
> So you can try:
> 
> 1) compile ltdl.lo with -fpic instead of -fPIC
> 
> 2) issue the linker command by hand so it doesn't try to pull in libc.so
> 
> I think that pulling in additional libraries to generate a shared library
> is probably incorrect.
> 
> Eduardo Horvath				   
> 
>