Re: New pkgsrc user: .exp file format not recognized error compiling gstreamer1 and gstreamer0.1

[Ibraheem Saleh <shadowhawk100%gmail.com@localhost>]

Makes sense.

Thanks for the tip.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
> * On 2015-04-24 at 22:35 BST, Ibraheem Saleh wrote:
>
>> I'm learning both how to compile and how to use pkgsrc at the same time so
>> forgive my ignorance :) ... I'm sure that my issue is probably something
>> dumb that I'm doing. Also I've just switched my compiler to the pkgsrc
>> gcc47 so I'm not sure if this is related to previous packages being
>> compiled with the Solaris sparc gcc34.
>>
>> Anyways, here are the last few lines of my bmake... Does anybody know where
>> I might have gone wrong to bring this about?
>>
>> Entering directory `/pkgsrc/multimedia/gstreamer1/work/gstreamer-1.4.5/gst'
>>   CCLD     libgstreamer-1.0.la
>> /pkg/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/bin/ld: warning: -z allextract ignored.
>> /pkg/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/bin/ld: warning: -z defaultextract ignored.
>> /pkg/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/bin/ld:.libs/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.405.0.exp:
>> file format not recognized; treating as linker script
>> /pkg/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/bin/ld:.libs/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.405.0.exp:1:
>> syntax error
>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> gmake[4]: *** [libgstreamer-1.0.la] Error 1
>>
>> I'll probably restart and compile everything with gcc47 in hopes that this
>> might fix my issue.
>
> This shows that you are using GNU ld, which is really not recommended
> on SunOS.  If you were able to build the pkgsrc gcc47 then I'd say
> that you'd definitely want to rebuild everything with that.
>
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> Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com