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authorBill Wendling <wendling@ncsa.uiuc.edu>2001-01-31 17:28:57 (GMT)
committerBill Wendling <wendling@ncsa.uiuc.edu>2001-01-31 17:28:57 (GMT)
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[svn-r3338] Purpose:
Documentation of bug Description: The --enable-static-exec flag doesn't work for Solaris and Linux systems. On Solaris this is due to there not being a static version of the libdl library. On Linux, it fails during the testing.
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@@ -378,6 +378,16 @@ Platforms Tested
Known Problems
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+* The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris
+ platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system
+ libraries on Solaris are available in a static format.
+
+ The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
+ on Linux platforms using the gcc-2.95.2 compiler.
+
+ It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
+ during configuration.
+
* With the gcc 2.95.2 compiler, HDF 5 uses the `-ansi' flag during
compilation. The ANSI version of the compiler complains about not being
able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning: