FC5 mt 64 beam.hybrid error

[Mikael Pettersson]

James Bowery writes:
 > I'm attempting to install otp on a Fedora Core 5 64 bit system with 
 > multi-threading and ran into this problem:
 > 
 > ./configure --enable-threads --prefix=/usr/local
 > make
 > ...etc...
 > hipe/hipe_x86_signal.c:192: undefined reference to `__next_sigaction'
 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 > make[3]: *** 
 > [/usr/local/src/otp_src_R10B-10/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/beam.hybrid] 
 > Error 1
 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/otp_src_R10B-10/erts/emulator'
 > make[2]: *** [hybrid] Error 2
 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/otp_src_R10B-10/erts/emulator'
 > make[1]: *** [hybrid] Error 2
 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/otp_src_R10B-10/erts'
 > make: *** [emulator] Error 2

Two patches for making R10B-10 work on FC5 were posted to
erlang-questions, at around March 27 (fix for glibc-2.4 which
is the problem quoted above) and April 6 (fix for non-executable
memory mappings on 32-bit x86). You should be able to find them
via the mailing list archives.

/Mikael