[pdftex] make (pdftex-20010126) pdftexbin fails on SUN gcc 2.95.2

[Han The Thanh]

Dear Bill,

>            Many thanks for your helpful and speedy reply. I have
> progressed the installation a little with your help.
> 
>   I have create and compiled dlsym.c as you suggested and inserted it
> into a copy of libc.a  "make" fails kpsewhich as before as expected

yes you need to put the modified libc.a somewhere so the linker will find
it before the system' one.

> gcc -o pdftex -static pdftexini.o pdftex0.o pdftex1.o pdftex2.o pdftex3.o pdftexextra.o pdftexdir/libpdf.a ../../libs/libtiff/libtiff.a ../../libs/libpng/libpng.a ../../libs/zlib/libz.a ../../libs/xpdf/xpdf/libxpdf.a ../../libs/xpdf/goo/libGoo.a lib/lib.a ../kpathsea/STATIC/libkpathsea.a /tmp/pdftex/libc.a /opt/gcc295/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.2/libgcc.a -lm
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> __builtin_delete                    pdftexdir/libpdf.a(pdftoepdf.o)
> __builtin_new                       pdftexdir/libpdf.a(pdftoepdf.o)
> __rtti_user                         ../../libs/xpdf/xpdf/libxpdf.a(GfxState.o)
> terminate(void)                     pdftexdir/libpdf.a(pdftoepdf.o)
> __builtin_vec_new                   pdftexdir/libpdf.a(pdftoepdf.o)
> __builtin_vec_delete                ../../libs/xpdf/goo/libGoo.a(GString.o)
> __rtti_si                           ../../libs/xpdf/xpdf/libxpdf.a(GfxState.o)
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to pdftex
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I think that someone had this problem as well and the solution was to use
g++ instead of gcc for linking. Anyway, I put a binary version for solris
of the latest pdftex on the same location
(ftp://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/local/cstug/thanh/pdftex/...)

Regards,
Thanh