Build of 2.1.64 fails on 64-bit Solaris

[Fredrik Lingvall]

Hi all,

Octave 2.1.64 fails to build on a 64-bit Solaris (5.9) machine with the 
following link error:

...

table for std::exception           0x4         
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libstdc++.a(eh_exception.o)
vtable for std::exception           0x4         
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libstdc++.a(eh_exception.o)
vtable for std::exception           0xc         
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libstdc++.a(eh_exception.o)
memcpy                              0xf8        
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libg2c.a(s_cat.o)
.umul                               0x118       
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libg2c.a(iio.o)
.umul                               0x238       
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libg2c.a(iio.o)
.umul                               0x2c8       
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libg2c.a(wrtfmt.o)
.umul                               0x10        
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libstdc++.a(eh_personality.o)
do_fio                              0x143c      
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libg2c.a(fmt.o)
__mul64                             0x3c8       
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libg2c.a(rdfmt.o)
__mul64                             0x42c       
/store/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/../../../libg2c.a(rdfmt.o)
ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I configured octave with:

./configure  --enable-shared --enable-dl

Fredrik



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