From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-11-09T03:33:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Fox, Solaris 2.9 problem

Daniel Berger wrote:

> Dang, I should have known you would ask about this.  It shouldn't be an issue.  My
> current LD_LIBRARY_PATH is:
> 
> /usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/local/qt/lib:/opt/oracle/lib
> 
> The FOX lib was installed under /usr/local, so the libFOX.so file is under
> /usr/local/lib.

OK.

> I think I built FOX with GNU's ld and Ruby 1.7.3 using Sun's ld.  I was (just now)
> going to try and rebuild Ruby 1.7.3 with the --with-gnu-ld option, but that doesn't
> appear to be a valid option (it didn't show up with "configure --help" and setting it
> didn't seem to do anything).
> 
> What do I need to change within the configure script to get it to recognize this?  I
> looked around some, but I only messed things up.

Instead of worrying about the configure script, maybe you can just 
modify the Makefile directly. Look for the place(s) where it's invoking 
"ld" and hard-code the path to GNU ld (/usr/local/bin/ld or whatever).