[cfarm-users] Some issues with cfarm215

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2026, 06:09 Peter Gutmann via cfarm-users, <
cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:

> mirabilos via cfarm-users <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> writes:
>
> >It is but of course the -Wl,… flags are linker-specific and you must use
> >Solaris’ syntax on Solaris, when not compiled for GNU ld.
>

Right, -Wl,xxx works fine, passing xxx directly to the linker. If the
linker is GNU ld then you need to use flags that GNU ld understands, and if
the linker is Solaris ld then you need to use flags that Solaris ld
understands.

There's nothing "inappropriate" about this setup.


> Mixing different sets of tools leads to weird inconsistencies in the build
> process though because having (say) gcc present implies GNU ld,



No it doesn't, that's a bad assumption.

except that in
> this case it's not, it's Sun's ld.


That's the recommended way to configure GCC on Solaris:
https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-solaris2


  Or at least it's someone's ld, there's no
> easy way to tell from a build script.  It's also Sun's make, which means
> having to feature-test each component you're using to try and figure out
> which
> options work with it.
>

Isn't that the point of testing on different operating systems? If you want
everything to be GNU binutils and GNU Make, don't use other operating
systems.




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