According to Harri Pasanen, the Solaris+gcc test for LINKFORSHARED

needed an adaptation for the latest gcc -- we need to grep stderr as
well as stdout for the magic string BFD.  (Does anybody know what BFD
means?)

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 83bf596b09974beeacb629751740e00abf0b16f5..789eaace661196861e32ba6b95fe40c239a0d805 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ then
                fi;;
        SunOS/5*) case $CC in
                  *gcc*)
-                   if $CC -Xlinker -V 2>/dev/null | grep BFD >/dev/null
+                   if $CC -Xlinker -V 2>&1 | grep BFD >/dev/null
                    then
                        LINKFORSHARED="-Xlinker --export-dynamic"
                    fi;;