Building python on solaris

[Martin von Loewis]

spaks at hotmail.com (Ramilio) writes:

> Text relocation remains                 	referenced
>     against symbol		    offset	in file
> <unknown>                           0x6fc    
> 	/usr/local/lib/libreadline.a(bind.o)
[...]
> Thats when things go a little pear shaped...and i get hundreds of
> these messages
> 
> any insight would be greatly appreciated, cheers

This means that libreadline.a is not position-independent, but the
compiler demands that it is. You have a number of options:

- statically link the readline module into the python interpreter, by
  modifying Modules/Setup (recommended)

- recompiling libreadline with -fPIC, still creating libreadline.a
  (works well)

- recompiling libreadline as a shared library (works, provided you can
  get the installation directory of libreadline.so into the search
  path of ld.so.1)

- using binutils ld instead of /usr/ccs/bin/ld, since binutils ld will
  not complain (ugly and not recommended)

- adding -mimpure-text into the gcc LDSHARED (also ugly)

- replacing -shared with -G in LDSHARED (totall broken)

Regards,
Martin