Re: bzip 2 fails to build on IRIX 6.5

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 11:44:07PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> Am 10.09.2019 um 22:44 schrieb Roland Illig:
> >> /opt/local/gcc-8.2.0/bin/ld [...] -rpath /usr/pkg/lib
> >> -soname libbz2.so.1 -set_version sgi1.0 [...]
> >>
> >> /opt/local/gcc-8.2.0/bin/ld: sgi1.0: No such file: No such file or directory
> >
> > I can reproduce this with /usr/bin/ld from NetBSD 8, which is from
> > binutils 2.27. That version doesn't know the -set_version option,
> > therefore it parses the command line as:
> >
> >     ld -s -e t_version sgi1.0
> >
> > which, translated to long options, is:
> >
> >     ld --strip-all --entry t_version sgi1.0
> >
> 
> The native IRIX ld supports the -set_version option. In hindsight this
> is obvious since the GNU linker would not use an underscore in its
> option names.
> 
> @joerg: Is it possible (just as a quick local workaround) to tell
> cwrappers to ignore the -set_version option including its string
> argument? In the pkglint test code I found a little hint:

I'm surprised that it even works somewhat given that likely none of the
IRIX specific code has been ported. That said, the question is where
-set_version comes from. Is it hard-coded somewhere?

Joerg