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 b/configure
index a1be8ecc5907bdb9d65989f792576069d5575a0b..c6ad7a5a7dc12aa64f28d324764545587c4f11b6 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
-# From configure.in Revision: 1.114 
+# From configure.in Revision: 1.115 
 
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
 # Generated automatically using autoconf version 2.13 
@@ -2355,7 +2355,7 @@ 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;;