RE: Fail to compile 5.04.3 on Solaris

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Simon Marlow wrote:

> > No. And bootstrapping with 5.04.3 also gave a segmentation fault. I've
> > attached a printout of what happens when I restart the
> > compilation with
> > EXTRA_HC_OPTS=-v. As before, Handle compiles fine when I restart the
> > compilation.
>
> Ah, it actually looks like the linker crashed.  On Sun boxes, I usually
> find that using the GNU linker gives much better results: it's orders of
> magnitude faster, for one thing.
>
Ah, yes. I've had problems with the linker before. It would be REALLY nice
if configure could find the GNU linker instead. Or it should at least be
possible to specify one's own linker a la --with-ln=<linker>. Could you
make this happen? Puhlease?

        /Jofes