make on Solaris 2.6

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Aug-1998, heberf <address@hidden> wrote:

| Thanks for the help on the last question I had while trying to install on my 
| Solaris 2.6 machine.  The answer was to put /usr/ccs/bin in my path.
| 
| Now I've got a stranger problem.  I'm using gcc 2.7.2.3 and things
| seem to go fine until near the end.  Then I get pages of errors
| (part included below) which end with this message.
| 
| ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections
| make[2]: *** [liboctave.so] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/octave-2.0.13/liboctave'
| make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/octave-2.0.13'
| make: *** [all] Error 2
| 
| I've never seen anything like this.  What's going on?

| Text relocation remains                         referenced
|     against symbol                  offset      in file
| _vt.22_IO_ostream_withassign.3ios   0x2d20      
/usr/local/lib/libstdc++.a(iostr

My guess is you need a shared version of libstdc++ (use configure
--enable-shared while building it), or you can just build a statically
linked version of Octave.

jwe