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when using a C compiler last patched nineteen years ago, on Solaris, there is this issue...

Today's episode in "ancient machines that never die" and they all (try to) run #curl.

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mhoye
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There is a lot more load-bearing antiquity out there than anyone realizes.
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kaia
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do you still try to accommodate those users or is it impossible?
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@kaia curl is written in ancient and very conservative C so it *usually* still works just fine. Sometimes with a little hands-on. But there are also the times when the machine is so special and ancient that it's hard to help much...
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Andre
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Aah, c'mon mate, don't tease. As someone with some love for ancient Solaris, I want to hear the story!
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@PCOWandre https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/13317

Bad order of linker arguments · Issue #13317 · curl/curl

I did this Environment: indium% echo $CFLAGS -Xa -xtarget=generic64 -xarch=generic64 -KPIC -xO5 -xregs=no%appl -erroff=E_TOKENLESS_MACRO,E_NONPORTABLE_BIT_FIELD_TYPE indium% echo $CPPFLAGS -D__EXTE...
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Andre
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That's quite insane! I've never heard of anyone running such a vintage compiler on Solaris 11. I wouldn't have even expected it to work except for the seemingly timeless compatibility of SunOS.

I was doing plenty of active Solaris work on 8/9 in 2005 and I was almost exclusively building packages on Studio 8.

Hang on, hang on.

5.11. "SUNW,Ultra-60". Hang on. "snv_34".

So this is an alpha release of Solaris 11 that never made it to production release for any pre sun4v machines running a compiler from the vintage of the hardware rather than the operating system.

Cool, cool. A genuine basketcase build!

Thanks for the entertaining read.

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Alex Stade
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isn’t this the classic linker which expects ld.so to have all the link and compile time paths, lest you have to explicitly set -R and -L? I recall having a less than fond of opinion about libtool back in the day. Suffice to say it isn’t really a compiler issue per se?
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