Unknown flag '-xcode=pic32' on Sun Studio 11 x86 when compiling ncurses 5.7

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

there was a change in Solaris flags some time ago:

20080614
        ...
        + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
        ...

This flag is only allowed on Sparc and invalid on
Sun Studio 11 x86 (from cc(1)):

     -xcode=v
          (SPARC) Specify code address space

On Sparc -xcode=pic32 is identical to the obsoleted option -KPIC,
however on x86 there is no -xcode and -KPIC is equivalent -Kpic.
I guess is may be best if it would be checked during compilation
if the compiler accepts -xcode.


Best regards

  -- Dagobert Michelsen