On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:30:43AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Jan 25, 2005, at 7:27 AM, James Chacon wrote:
> 
> >This is why on solaris I patch gcc to at least push -R lines to the 
> >linker
> >for this as well. Now, why the GCC maintainers insist the broken 
> >behavior
> >is "correct" is beyond me...
> 
> I've been meaning to cook up a patch that allows the -R for 
> GCC-implicit libraries to be selected on a per-target-configuration 
> basis.  This would solve the problem for NetBSD, and allow the GCC 
> people to retain the current behavior for their favorite platforms 
> (they have reasons for wanting it; not that I agree with those reasons, 
> but they do have a rationale, nonetheless).

I beleive the way I patched it was to add a new spec entry definition
and then have the portion of the code which happily auto-add's -L also add
-R in those cases as well via the spec expansion.

So, what is the rationale for shipping a compiler that will link and not
run programs "out of the box" on Solaris (a fairly major platform for gcc)?
It's amazingly simple to make the -R work correctly there and get the right
path...

James