build problem under Solaris 2.5.1

[Ray Anderson]

I am attempting to build Octave 2.0.9 on a Sun Ultra-2 running
Solaris 2.0.9. The compiler is gcc version cygnus-2.7-96q4


The build proceed fairly smoothly until I get down to making the src
directory.



When it tries to make the builtins I get the following:


c++  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../glob -I../libcruft/misc  
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H    -g -O2 -L..    -fPIC -g -o octave \
octave.o builtins.o  balance.o  chol.o  colloc.o  dassl.o  det.o  eig.o  expm.o 
 
fft.o  fft2.o  filter.o  find.o  fsolve.o  getgrent.o  getpwent.o  getrusage.o  
givens.o  hess.o  ifft.o  ifft2.o  inv.o  log.o  lpsolve.o  lsode.o  lu.o  
minmax.o  pinv.o  qr.o  quad.o  qzval.o  rand.o  schur.o  sort.o  svd.o  syl.o  
time.o \
-L../liboctave -L../libcruft -L../readline -L../kpathsea -L../glob -L../dlfcn 
-L. -Xlinker -R -Xlinker /usr/local/lib \
-loctinterp -loctave -ltinst -lcruft  -lreadline -lkpathsea -lglob  \
-Xlinker -R -Xlinker (null)  
-R/usr/dist/pkgs/devpro/5bin.sun4/lib:/opt/SUNWspro/lib  
-L/usr/dist/pkgs/devpro/5bin.sun4/lib 
-L/usr/dist/pkgs/devpro/5bin.sun4/SC4.2/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/usr/lib 
/usr/dist/pkgs/devpro/5bin.sun4/SC4.2/lib/libM77.a -lF77 -lsunmath -lm -lcx -lc 
 
-lcurses -lm -lsunmath -ldl -lsocket 
/bin/sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
gmake[2]: *** [octave] Error 2
gmake[1]: *** [src] Error 2
gmake: *** [all] Error 2


Apparently the (null) statement near the Xlinker flags is causing a problem
from what I can tell.

Has anyone seen this particular problem or have a suggestion of what
to check and/or modify?

Ray Anderson
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