See http://gcc.gnu.org/PR15345 Quick kludge by H.J.Lu Works around gcc-3.4.0 error which shows up when building glibc-2.3.2 for sparc64: .../sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.0-glibc-2.3.2/build-glibc/libc.a(dl-reloc.o)(.text+0x4b4): In function `elf_machine_load_address.3': : undefined reference to `_DYNAMIC' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [/home/dank/wk/crosstool-0.28-rc10/build/sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.0-glibc-2.3.2/build-glibc/elf/sln] Error 1 --- glibc-2.3.2/sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/dl-machine.h.orig Sat May 8 20:54:26 2004 +++ glibc-2.3.2/sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/dl-machine.h Sat May 8 17:18:04 2004 @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ } /* Return the run-time load address of the shared object. */ +#ifdef IS_IN_rtld static inline Elf64_Addr elf_machine_load_address (void) { @@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ pc[3]*4 is l_addr + _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ - (long)pc - 12 */ return (Elf64_Addr) got - *got + (Elf32_Sword) ((pc[2] - pc[3]) * 4) - 4; } +#endif /* We have 4 cases to handle. And we code different code sequences for each one. I love V9 code models... */