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If you are using blitz with egcs under Solaris, SunOS, or OSF/1 you may need to use the gnu linker.

You can download the binutils from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/gnu/binutils/

From Peter Nordlund:

My experience with blitz and sun is that you need the gnu linker. At least I had the same problem, and by using gnu-binutils-2.9.1 I got it to work.

It can be somewhat tricky to get egcs to use the gnu-linker also. So how I do it migth not be the only way, but it worked for me.

1. Install binutils-2.9.1
2. Create the bin directory where the egcs compiler will be installed.
3. create links from the linker and assembler to the egcs-bin-dir.
4. configure and install egcs.

See the commands I used below.

mkdir BUILD; cd BUILD
mkdir ../egcs-1.1a/bin
pushd ../egcs-1.1a/bin
ln -s /misc/cvap/gnu/binutils-2.9.1/bin/ld . ln -s /misc/cvap/gnu/binutils-2.9.1/bin/as . popd
../src/egcs-1.1a/configure --prefix=/misc/cvap/egcs/egcs-1.1a --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld
make bootstrap-lean ; make install

> I am trying to get blitz++ going on a Sun Ultra-1 running Solaris 5.6. >
> The compiler is egcs 1.1b.
>
> The make seems to go fine until we get to the examples: >
> > gmake[1]: Entering directory `/data/gaetz/blitz-19980903/examples' > > g++ matmult.o -o matmult -L../lib -lblitz -lm > > ld: warning: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file matmult.o: symbol __Q25blitz t13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt15_bz_ArrayExprOp3ZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitz t20_bz_ArrayExprUnaryOp2ZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt15_bz_ArrayExprOp3ZQ 25blitzt21_bz_ArrayExprConstant1ZfZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt20_bz_Arra yExprUnaryOp2ZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt15_bz_ArrayExprOp3ZQ25blitzt13_ bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt20_bz_ArrayExprUnaryOp2ZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blit zt15_bz_ArrayExprOp3ZQ25blitzt16IndexPlaceholder1i0ZQ25blitzt21_bz_ArrayExprCons tant1ZfZQ25blitzt8Subtract2ZiZfZQ25blitzt8_bz_pow21ZfZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1Z Q25blitzt20_bz_ArrayExprUnaryOp2ZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt15_bz_ArrayE xprOp3ZQ25blitzt16IndexPlaceholder1i1ZQ25blitzt21_bz_ArrayExpr:

> >         external symbolic relocation against non-allocatable section .stab;
> >         cannot be processed at runtime: relocation ignored
> > Undefined                       first referenced
> >  symbol                             in file

> > __Q25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt15_bz_ArrayExprOp3ZQ25blitzt13_bz_Array Expr1ZQ25blitzt20_bz_ArrayExprUnaryOp2ZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt15_bz_ ArrayExprOp3ZQ25blitzt21_bz_ArrayExprConstant1ZfZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25bl itzt20_bz_ArrayExprUnaryOp2ZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt15_bz_ArrayExprOp 3ZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt20_bz_ArrayExprUnaryOp2ZQ25blitzt13_bz_Arra yExpr1ZQ25blitzt15_bz_ArrayExprOp3ZQ25blitzt16IndexPlaceholder1i0ZQ25blitzt21_bz _ArrayExprConstant1ZfZQ25blitzt8Subtract2ZiZfZQ25blitzt8_bz_pow21ZfZQ25blitzt13_ bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blitzt20_bz_ArrayExprUnaryOp2ZQ25blitzt13_bz_ArrayExpr1ZQ25blit zt15_bz_ArrayExprOp3ZQ25blitzt16IndexPlaceholder1i1ZQ25blitzt21_bz_ArrayExpr mat mult.o
> > ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to matmult > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > gmake[1]: *** [matmult] Error 1
>
> What is happening here? Are there workarounds?