From 4299231e685ff2a38677775943ccc7ba2bf66a04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:02:18 +0000 Subject: Warn about binutils 2.13 on Solaris. --- README | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 0b00b0d..33508db 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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; -- cgit v0.12