Commit 4299231e authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Warn about binutils 2.13 on Solaris.

parent b9764199
......@@ -244,6 +244,13 @@ Solaris: When using Sun's C compiler with threads, at least on Solaris
the "CC" environment variable when running the configure
script).
When using GCC on Solaris, beware of binutils 2.13 or GCC
versions built using it. This mistakenly enables the
-zcombreloc option which creates broken shared libraries on
Solaris. binutils 2.12 works, and the binutils maintainers
are aware of the problem, so binutils 2.13.1 will probably fix
this problem.
Linux: A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in
the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5; glibc version 2.0.7
solves the problem. This causes the popen2 test to fail;
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