Bug 20060

PolicyKit 0.9 fails to configure correctly under GNOME jhbuild on OpenSolaris Nevada build 101.

When checking for PAM, the configure script attempts to use the linker flag '-l,as-needed' which isn't supported by Solaris' ld(1).

In turn, this flag is only set when using GCC due to an assumption that GCC => GNU ld. On OpenSolaris, GCC is installed by default --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld (the Sun linker), and so this is not a valid choice.

This issue is still present in the HEAD source - see http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/tree/configure.ac?id=5ad7cc5c032092b459716920edfa12c4a57c4ba0#n143

There's a configure step for "checking if the linker is GNU ld... no" which might be available as a macro, although I can't see it in the autoconf documentation. Alternatively, http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/ax_ld_check_flag.html could be useful.

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Full uname:

SunOS manduba 5.11 snv_101 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise

Full GCC version:

Reading specs from /usr/sfw/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.11/3.4.3/specs
Configured with: /gates/sfwnv/builds/sfwnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/gcc/gcc-3.4.3/configure --prefix=/usr/sfw --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --without-gnu-as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --without-gnu-ld --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc --enable-shared
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-20050802)