[Fxruby-users] My fox build segfaults on Solaris 9 gcc.

[Hugh S. S. E. E. <hg...@dm...>]

The last thing I get on building the Fox library is

g++ -shared  FX4Splitter.lo FXAccelTable.lo FXApp.lo
FXArrowButton.lo FXBMPIcon.lo FXBMPImage.lo FXBitmap.lo
FXBitmapFrame.lo FXBitmapView.lo FXButton.lo FXBZStream.lo
FXCURCursor.lo FXCanvas.lo FXCharset.lo FXCheckButton.lo
FXColorBar.lo FXColorDialog.lo FXColorNames.lo FXColorSelector.lo
FXColorWell.lo FXColorWheel.lo FXComboBox.lo FXComposite.lo
FXCursor.lo FXDC.lo FXDCPrint.lo FXDCWindow.lo FXDLL.lo
FXDataTarget.lo FXDebugTarget.lo FXDelegator.lo FXDial.lo
FXDialogBox.lo FXDict.lo FXDirBox.lo FXDirDialog.lo FXDirList.lo
FXDirSelector.lo FXDocument.lo FXDragCorner.lo FXDrawable.lo
FXDriveBox.lo FXException.lo FXFile.lo FXFileDialog.lo FXFileDict.lo
FXFileList.lo FXFileSelector.lo FXFileStream.lo FXFoldingList.lo
FXFont.lo FXFontDialog.lo FXFontSelector.lo FXFrame.lo
FXGIFCursor.lo FXGIFIcon.lo FXGIFImage.lo FXGLCanvas.lo FXGLCone.lo
FXGLContext.lo FXGLCube.lo FXGLCylinder.lo FXGLObject.lo
FXGLShape.lo FXGLSphere.lo FXGLTriangleMesh.lo FXGLViewer.lo
FXGLVisual.lo FXGradientBar.lo FXGroupBox.lo FXGZStream.lo FXHash.lo
FXHeader.lo FXHorizontalFrame.lo FXICOIcon.lo FXICOImage.lo
FXIcon.lo FXIconList.lo FXId.lo FXImage.lo FXImageFrame.lo
FXImageView.lo FXInputDialog.lo FXJPGIcon.lo FXJPGImage.lo
FXLabel.lo FXList.lo FXListBox.lo FXMDIButton.lo FXMDIChild.lo
FXMDIClient.lo FXMainWindow.lo FXMat3d.lo FXMat4d.lo FXMat3f.lo
FXMat4f.lo FXMatrix.lo FXMemoryStream.lo FXMenuBar.lo
FXMenuButton.lo FXMenuCaption.lo FXMenuCascade.lo FXMenuCheck.lo
FXMenuRadio.lo FXMenuCommand.lo FXMenuPane.lo FXMenuSeparator.lo
FXMenuTitle.lo FXMessageBox.lo FXObject.lo FXObjectList.lo
FXOptionMenu.lo FXPCXIcon.lo FXPCXImage.lo FXPNGIcon.lo
FXPNGImage.lo FXPPMIcon.lo FXPPMImage.lo FXPacker.lo FXPicker.lo
FXPopup.lo FXPoint.lo FXPrintDialog.lo FXProgressBar.lo
FXProgressDialog.lo FXQuatd.lo FXQuatf.lo FXRGBIcon.lo FXRGBImage.lo
FXRadioButton.lo FXRangef.lo FXRanged.lo FXRealSlider.lo
FXRealSpinner.lo FXRecentFiles.lo FXRectangle.lo FXRegion.lo
FXRegistry.lo FXReplaceDialog.lo FXRex.lo FXRootWindow.lo FXRuler.lo
FXScrollArea.lo FXScrollBar.lo FXScrollPane.lo FXScrollWindow.lo
FXSearchDialog.lo FXSeparator.lo FXSettings.lo FXShell.lo
FXShutter.lo FXSize.lo FXSlider.lo FXSpinner.lo FXSpheref.lo
FXSphered.lo FXSplitter.lo FXSpring.lo FXStatusBar.lo
FXStatusLine.lo FXStream.lo FXString.lo FXStringDict.lo
FXSwitcher.lo FXTGAIcon.lo FXTGAImage.lo FXTIFIcon.lo FXTIFImage.lo
FXTabBar.lo FXTabBook.lo FXTabItem.lo FXTable.lo FXText.lo
FXTextCodec.lo FXTextField.lo FXThread.lo FXToggleButton.lo
FXToolBar.lo FXToolBarGrip.lo FXToolBarShell.lo FXToolBarTab.lo
FXToolTip.lo FXTopWindow.lo FXTreeList.lo FXTreeListBox.lo
FXTriStateButton.lo FXUndoList.lo FXURL.lo FXUTF8Codec.lo
FXUTF16Codec.lo FXUTF32Codec.lo FXVec2d.lo FXVec2f.lo FXVec3d.lo
FXVec3f.lo FXVec4d.lo FXVec4f.lo FXVerticalFrame.lo FXVisual.lo
FXWindow.lo FXWizard.lo FXWString.lo FXXBMIcon.lo FXXBMImage.lo
FXXPMIcon.lo FXXPMImage.lo fxbmpio.lo fxfilematch.lo fxgifio.lo
fxicoio.lo fxjpegio.lo fxparsegeometry.lo fxpcxio.lo fxpngio.lo
fxppmio.lo fxpriv.lo fxpsio.lo fxfsquantize.lo fxezquantize.lo
fxwuquantize.lo fxrgbio.lo fxtargaio.lo fxtifio.lo fxutils.lo
fxwinkbd.lo fxxbmio.lo fxxpmio.lo icons.lo vsscanf.lo  -Wl,--rpath
-Wl,/usr/openwin/lib  -L/usr/openwin/lib -lXext -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl
-ldl -lpthread -ljpeg -lpng -lz -lbz2 -lm -lGL -lGLU -lc
-Wl,-soname -Wl,libFOX-1.2.so.0 -o .libs/libFOX-1.2.so.0.0.6
collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation Fault], core
dumped
gmake[1]: *** [libFOX-1.2.la] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/Scratch/hgs/fox-1.2.6/src'
gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

The only thing that seems obvious to me is to ensure that the LD
used is gnu ld and not the Sun one.  Given this is invoked by g++,
how might I be certain about this?  It is not defined in the (top)
Makefile.  Anything else I should look out for?

         Thank you,
         Hugh