Bug Report: Can not compile libffi on solaris 10 (x86)

[Jiaqing Wang]

Hello,
I'm reporting a bug with libffi. I'm trying to compile the library on
our solaris 10 (x86) server but it had failed with the following
message:

libtool: link: gcc -shared -Wl,-z -Wl,text -Wl,-h -Wl,libffi.so.5 -o
.libs/libffi.so.5.0.10  src/.libs/debug.o src/.libs/prep_cif.o
src/.libs/types.o src/.libs/raw_api.o src/.libs/java_raw_api.o
src/.libs/closures.o src/x86/.libs/ffi64.o src/x86/.libs/unix64.o
src/x86/.libs/ffi.o src/x86/.libs/sysv.o   -lc
Text relocation remains
  referenced
    against symbol                  offset      in file
ffi_closure_SYSV_inner              0xd2        src/x86/.libs/sysv.o
ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libffi.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/libffi-3.0.9'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/libffi-3.0.9'
make: *** [all] Error 2


The compiler I'm using is
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Reading specs from /opt/local/bin/../lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.4.6/specs
Configured with: ../configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as
--with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --enable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++,f77
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.6
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ld: Software Generation Utilities - Solaris Link Editors: 5.10-1.497
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Please let me know if there is any more info you will need. Thanks.


Jiaqing Wang