misp-sgi-irix5.2 assembler-preprocessor error building libgcj

Tue Jul 20 11:22:00 GMT 1999

On Jul 20, 1999, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> wrote:
> Oh well! Anyway, even after manually preprocessing the file and
> assembling it manually, it still loses :-(

> Object file format error in: mips_sgi_mach_dep.o: non-shared Elf object "mips_sgi_mach_dep.o" cannot be linked shared.

The work-around here was to add -Wa,-KPIC to the flags passed to gcc
when called to assemble it, or to add `.options pic2' to the assembly
source (which is what gcc does in the assembly code it produces). At
least when the assembler is GNU as, which is what I'm using.
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