[Scons-users] scons adds option -KPIC also for gcc/g++ on platform solarisx86

[Bill Deegan]

Try creating a python 2.7 virtualenv, and then install SCons via pip. It
should pick the newest version of scons which works with Python 2.7, which
I think is 3.5.1.

-Bill

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 5:59 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

> On 5/25/21 5:38 AM, Jusic wrote:
> > Hi,
> > ancient system runs ancient scons. :-)
> > Upgrade of python to 3.5 and compiling a new scons version for solaris
> > comes with big effort.
> > Before doing that I'm looking for possible workarounds and I checked
> > several times the changes.txt.
> > The only entry is:
> > Line 4354
> > Add the -KPIC option by default when compiling shared objects on
> >       Solaris
> >
> > But there is no entry for a fix.
> > Can anybody confirm in which scons version it was fixed?
>
> In addition, I can find four ancient (closed) issues related to this:
>
> https://github.com/scons/scons/issues/639
> https://github.com/scons/scons/issues/742
> https://github.com/scons/scons/issues/1201
> https://github.com/scons/scons/issues/1206
>
> naturally, all have to with using Sun compilers, not gcc.
>
>
>
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