ld fails under Solaris/i386

[Marc Glisse]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Marc Glisse wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
>> When building GMP, ld fails under Solaris (see attachment for
>> config.log and make output). First error is:
>> 
>> ld: fatal: symbol `__gmpz_abs' is multiply-defined:
>>        (file .libs/assert.o type=FUNC; file mpz/.libs/abs.o type=FUNC);
>
> In gmp.h, for sunpro, there is a line that says "extern inline" where it 
> should be just "inline" (see previous discussions here). It looks like it 
> hasn't been fixed in mercurial yet.

Ping.

As the above paragraph suggests, you just need to remove the word "extern" 
on line 466 of gmp-h.in to let gmp compile with sunpro (well, the version 
I tried segfaulted on the "reuse" test in gmp5, but that is something 
else).

-- 
Marc Glisse