Re: [PATCH] 4.3.5 build fails on SunOS 4.1.4

["Vin Shelton" <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 04:58:15 +0000
>  River Tarnell <river@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>  >  + unless compiled with --disable-dynamic, any attempt to use
>  >    completion-related features crashes the shell with 'Undefined
>  >    symbol: _incompfunc'
>
>  I think the answer here is probably --disable-dynamic.  It's going back a
>  while, but I have a suspicion dynamic linking has always been problematic
>  on SunOS 4.  It might be fixable if anyone thought it worth while and had
>  the time and facilities.
>
>  For the specific problem, on some older systems an underscore needed to be
>  added by hand to entry points when fetching them with dlsym().  It looks
>  like this is some variant of that problem (although dlsym() isn't directly
>  involved).  Again, it's going back a bit and I'm not sure how this was
>  supposed to pan out.

Peter et al -

As you wrote, this is going back some ways (it's been *at least* 3
years since I built on a SunOS 4 platform) - I had to
--disable-dynamic in order to build a working zsh on SunOS4.  I recall
investigating further, but I never got the build to the point where
building with dynamic linking worked, IIRC.

  - Vin