SunOS 4.1.4 is working, too.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20886

diff --git a/README.solaris b/README.solaris
index 202c8ff..7e9b308 100644 (file)
--- a/README.solaris
+++ b/README.solaris
@@ -233,16 +233,6 @@ You may have to manually edit config.sh and add the -Wl,-E flags
 yourself, or else run Configure interactively and add the flags at the
 appropriate prompts.
 
-In SunOS 4.x you most probably want to use the SunOS ld, /usr/bin/ld,
-since the more recent versions of GNU ld (like 2.13) do not seem to
-work for building Perl anymore.  When linking the extensions, the
-GNU ld gets very unhappy and spews a lot of errors like this
-
-  ... relocation truncated to fit: BASE13 ...
-
-and dies.  Therefore the SunOS 4.1 hints file explicitly sets the
-ld to be /usr/bin/ld.
-
 If your gcc is configured to use GNU as and ld but you want to use the
 Solaris ones instead to build perl, then you'll need to add
 -B/usr/ccs/bin/ to the gcc command line.  One convenient way to do
@@ -602,6 +592,22 @@ symbolic link /dev/urandom pointing to /dev/random.
 It may be possible to use the Entropy Gathering Daemon (written in
 Perl!), available from L<http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/>.
 
+=head1 SunOS 4.x
+
+In SunOS 4.x you most probably want to use the SunOS ld, /usr/bin/ld,
+since the more recent versions of GNU ld (like 2.13) do not seem to
+work for building Perl anymore.  When linking the extensions, the
+GNU ld gets very unhappy and spews a lot of errors like this
+
+  ... relocation truncated to fit: BASE13 ...
+
+and dies.  Therefore the SunOS 4.1 hints file explicitly sets the
+ld to be /usr/bin/ld.
+
+As of Perl 5.8.1 the dynamic loading of libraries (DynaLoader, XSLoader)
+also seems to have become broken in in SunOS 4.x.  Therefore the default
+is to build Perl statically.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 The original was written by Andy Dougherty F<doughera@lafayette.edu>

diff --git a/hints/sunos_4_1.sh b/hints/sunos_4_1.sh
index 4c9ff14..4f06d6e 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/sunos_4_1.sh
+++ b/hints/sunos_4_1.sh
@@ -88,3 +88,8 @@ fi
 # from many extensions, like B and Data::Dumper.
 ld=/usr/bin/ld
 
+# As of Perl 5.8.1 it seems that dynaloading is broken in SunOS 4.x, sniff.
+case "$usedl" in
+'') usedl=undef ;;
+esac
+