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@@ -244,6 +244,13 @@ Solaris: When using Sun's C compiler with threads, at least on Solaris
the "CC" environment variable when running the configure
script).
+ When using GCC on Solaris, beware of binutils 2.13 or GCC
+ versions built using it. This mistakenly enables the
+ -zcombreloc option which creates broken shared libraries on
+ Solaris. binutils 2.12 works, and the binutils maintainers
+ are aware of the problem, so binutils 2.13.1 will probably fix
+ this problem.
+
Linux: A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in
the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5; glibc version 2.0.7
solves the problem. This causes the popen2 test to fail;