unhandled ELF relocation(RelA) type 23

[Armin Groesslinger]

Hello,

when compiling GHC 5.00.x on Solaris with gcc 2.95.x
I get this error when trying to start GHCI:

127> ghci
   ___         ___ _
  / _ \ /\  /\/ __(_)
 / /_\// /_/ / /  | |      GHC Interactive, version 5.00.2, For Haskell 98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |      http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|      Type :? for help.

Loading package std ... linking ... unhandled ELF relocation(RelA) type 23
ghc-5.00.2: fatal error: do_Elf32_Rela_relocations: unhandled ELF
relocation type



Looking at ghc/rts/Linker.c, (and finding out what "type 23" is),
I applied the following patch to Linker.c, which seems to fix the
problem. I don't know much about reloction on Sparc, so I'm not
absolutely sure,  it is really correct, but I didn't experience any
problems.


Regards,

Armin


--- ghc-5.00.2/ghc/rts/Linker.c	Thu Jun  7 18:36:41 2001
+++ ghc-5.00.2-p/ghc/rts/Linker.c	Thu Jul  5 16:55:00 2001
@@ -1677,6 +1677,7 @@
             w1 |= w2;
             *pP = w1;
             break;
+         case R_SPARC_UA32:
          case R_SPARC_32:
             w2 = (Elf32_Word)(S + A);
             *pP = w2;