Python-2.2.1, Solaris7, make test fails...

[Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng]

On 18 Apr 2002, Paul Boddie wrote:

> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs at dmu.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<mailman.1019123256.19883.python-list at python.org>...
> >
> > What else does it look for?  If I symling /usr/local/bin/ld to gld will
> > configure find it?
>
> You might want to look at config.log to see what is going on "behind
> the scenes". It might help even more if you were to pass the -v flag
> to configure. In the log, I think it should indicate at which line the

Seems to be using gnu ld.

configure:2083: checking for opendir in -ldir
configure:2102: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -ldir   1>&5
/usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/bin/ld: cannot find -ldir
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
--
configure:3355: checking for shl_load in -ldld
configure:3374: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -ldld  -ldl  1>&5
/usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/bin/ld: cannot find -ldld
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
--

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GNU ld version 2.12
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

>
> I just hope that the whole linking thing isn't some
> dark-side-of-the-force libtool-determined configuration, otherwise you

I don't know.
>
> Paul
>
        Hugh