Re: pkg/46329 (graphics/ImageMagick: visibility on Solaris with GCC4 still broken if using native ld)

[Jörn Clausen <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46329; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Clausen?= <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: Hans Rosenfeld <rosenfeld%grumpf.hope-2000.org@localhost>,
 solaris-pkg-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/46329 (graphics/ImageMagick: visibility on Solaris with GCC4
 still broken if using native ld)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:52:38 +0200

 On 13.04.12 11:45, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
 >   graphics/ImageMagick built without problems in my SunOS 5.11 bulk build
 >   using lang/gcc46. Could it be that your gcc 4.7 is not configured
 >   correctly? I can't believe that a newer gcc4 suddenly lost support for
 >   the visibility attribute.
 
 It's the linker that does not support the code generated by GCC. As 
 mentioned, I use /usr/ccs/bin/ld, not binutils.
 
 I admit the patch "fixes" cases that are not broken, but as long as 
 autoconf provides no method for determining the linker in use, this is 
 the only workaround.
 
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