On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:59 AM, David Kirkby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.kirkby@onetel.net">david.kirkby@onetel.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
It does not look to me like Maxima is being compiled - at least not in<br>
the sense of using a compiler like gcc.<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Tthen it means that ECL itself is not capable of loading. If I interpret that the error is due to the causes shown in the link you mentioned, that would mean the compiler is broken, because ECL does not have 2GB data and nevertheless Sun's linker is not capable of handling the relocation of its statically addressed data.<br>
<br>Since all that does not make sense, the problem must be somwhere else. This suggests that GCC may be missing a flag when building the shared library:<br><a href="http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/7791">http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/7791</a><br>
<br>Currently we use (src/<a href="http://configure.in">configure.in</a>)<br> SHARED_LDFLAGS="-dy -G ${LDFLAGS}"<br> BUNDLE_LDFLAGS="-dy -G ${LDFLAGS}"<br>but maybe we should instead used -shared<br>
<br>Juanjo<br><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://tream.dreamhosters.com">http://tream.dreamhosters.com</a><br>