Error building libffi

[Joerg Brunsmann]

David Scott Urban wrote:

> ../configure --prefix=/home/urban/local/sun26 --enable-threads=posix
> --enable-java-gc=boehm --with-as=/home/urban/local/sun26/bin/gas
> --with-ld=/home/uban/local/sun26/bin/gld
> 
> Iam am getting the following error when compiling libffi:
> 
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc -fexceptions -g -O2   -o libffi.la -rpath
> /home/urban/local/sun26/lib -release 2.00-beta  debug.lo prep_cif.lo types.lo
> raw_api.lo ffi.lo v8.lo
> rm -fr .libs/libffi.la .libs/libffi.* .libs/libffi-2.00-beta.*
> gcc -shared  debug.lo prep_cif.lo types.lo raw_api.lo ffi.lo v8.lo  -lc
> -Wl,-soname -Wl,libffi-2.00-beta.so -o .libs/libffi-2.00-beta.so
> ld: warning: option -o appears more than once, first setting taken
> ld: fatal: file libffi-2.00-beta.so: cannot open file: No such file or directory

I don't know if compiling libffi is currently broken on Solaris, but given 
the above error message it seems to me, that the solaris native linker is
complaining there. The question is why the solaris linker is used and not 
the gnu linker. 

1. Make sure that /home/uban/local/sun26/bin is the first element in your path. 
2. Does

  $ /home/uban/local/sun26/bin/gld -v

say something like

GNU ld version 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1)

Good luck,

Jörg