[erlang-questions] Erlang crypto_drv in R13B02/03 fails to load on amd64-Solaris2.10

[Peter-Henry Mander]

Yes, that bug looks awfully similar to mine, and the explanation also
concurs with my fuzzy understanding of what is going on. "Will not
fix" since 2004? Kind of bad, indeed.

I tried -mcmodel=medium, which didn't solve the issue, and
-mcmodel=large which broke *all* of the erl_interface C file
compilation.

Aside: The "medium/large memory model" is only available with GCC-4
for shared libraries, not GCC-3, and that led me on to another,
different battle to compile GCC version 4. I succeeded thanks to
Gilles Dauphin: http://www.infres.enst.fr/~dauphin/pkgsrcmywork/

The -fPIC flag is used pretty much everywhere I looked, and flew past
very often as I went cross-eyed gazing at the compilation output,
Matrix style.

The -shared and -G flags, I don't recall seeing. I may try looking for
this on Monday.

Pete.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Wallentin Dahlberg
<wallentin.dahlberg@REDACTED> wrote:
> We haven't had time to investigate this problem yet. (Lots of release stuff
> going on today).
>
> However, it seems like similar problems exists on opensolaris + AMD64.
> For instance:
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=a68c8de187c30929fb79755edd017?bug_id=5102797
>
> This would be kind of bad.
>
> I don't have your build log in front of me so I can't see if this is the
> case but similar problems has been solved with -fPIC and -shared and not -G
> when using gcc on solaris.
>
> LDFLAGS += -shared
> CFLAGS += -fPIC
>
> // Björn-Egil