Re: gmake check: "FAIL: rpath-NXXf" (ld: fatal error ... -lrpathz)

[Bruno Haible]

Nelson Henry Eric wrote:
> ./configure; gmake seemed to go okay, but "6 of 46 tests failed".  Of the
> tests that failed, all ended with the letter "f".  The error message
> indicated some kind of linking problem like "couldn't find library
> -lrpathz" or "file librpathx.so tried to include many files."
>
> Solaris2.8, native linker, gcc3.2.2.

Thanks for reporting this. It seems to be due to the fact that on Sparc,
one cannot add code from a static library (compiled without -fPIC) to
a shared library.

You can ignore this, and proceed with "cd gettext-tools ; make check".

Bruno