From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-05-30T21:03:46+09:00
Subject: RE: ld errors attempting to install FXRuby on Solaris 8

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyle Johnson [mailto:lyle@users.sourceforge.net]
> 
> I don't know how to fix Daniel Berger's problem, but I don't think is 
> going to be it either. If you look at the error message he's getting 
> from the linker it's not complaining about not being able to find the 
> FOX library (-lFOX).
> 
> The error message is the completely useless "ld: fatal: relocations 
> remain against allocatable but non-writable sections". To investigate 
> this I did what I usually do when faced with incomprehensible error 
> messages from GCC: I asked Google about it. That search 
> turned up this 
> promising-looking link from (yikes) the Python FAQ:
> 
> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq03.036.htp
> 
> Daniel Berger: I'm relying on you for help on this one since I don't 
> have access to a Solaris build machine to experiment. If, 
> after reading 
> this FAQ (or other sources) you come up with a solution, 
> please let the 
> rest of us know. If it's something I can (and should) patch in the 
> FXRuby extconf.rb script, I'd like to do so.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Lyle

I realized that, after looking at the link you provided, I had never
re-installed the binutils package!  I reloaded the OS a while back and,
while I had installed many other GNU utilities, ld wasn't one of them.
Silly me.  So, I installed it and everything seemed to go fine after that
(i.e. using the GNU version of ld).  Now I've hit another snag:

irb(main):001:0> require 'fox'
LoadError: ld.so.1: ruby: fatal: relocation error: file 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/sparc-solaris2.8/fox.so: symbol cerr: 
referenced symbol not found - 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/sparc-solaris2.8/fox.so
        from (irb):1:in `require'
        from (irb):1

I'm going to try rebuilding Fox again with the GNU utils to see if that
sorts this out.

Regards,

Dan