[Hugs-bugs] problems building on Solaris

[Alastair Reid]

Dean Herington reports:
> '-dy -G' (note: lower-case 'd') did work!

Great!

Was that combined with the -Wl, prefix to push it through gcc?

Could I ask you to do a few more experiments to see what change we need in
the configure script?  Try tweaking hugs98/configure.ac by moving the call to

  HUGS_TRY_DYNLINK(-G)

up about 6 lines to just before the -r flag (adding -dy and/or -Wl, if 
required) then delete any cache, rebuild ./configure and rerun.  Hopefully it 
will pick the right flags this time.

[But why was the config test deciding that -r was good enough?  If it doesn't 
work in Hugs at runtime, it shouldn't work at config time.  I wonder if the 
test needs to be strengthened to invoke a function from some other shared 
library?]

Hmmmm, I'm having trouble ssh-ing into cvs.haskell.org so I can't update the 
repository directly but if you report back to hugs-bugs, I'm sure some kind 
soul will add it in.

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Alastair Reid