[vtkusers] Re: Compilation problems under Sparc/Solaris

[Sean McInerney]

The exact reasons why this error occurs are hard to pinpoint ... except 
to say that it results from an improperly assembled object file. When 
this is not caused by a bug in the assembler, it probably results from 
the object file being truncated when written as in the case of the disk 
being full. Use of GNU binutils with GCC on Solaris may also be the 
source of your woes. Use of Sun's assembler and linker (in /usr/ccs/bin) 
may solve your problem. Even better would be use of the most recent 
release of GCC. VTK builds without incident with GCC 3.3.2 on Solaris 9 
SPARC.

-Sean

> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:06:54 -0800 (PST)
> From: Technique <upup_in at yahoo.com>
> To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Subject: [vtkusers] Compilation problems under Sparc/Solaris
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> Hello,
>  
> I encounter linking problems when trying to compile VTK
> under the following platform :
>  
> gcc -v
> Reading specs from /home/OPNSRC/GCC-2.95.2/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95.2/specs
> gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
> 
> The error messages are as follows :
>  
> Building executable /home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/bin/HybridCxxTests...
> ld: elf error: file TestPointWidget.o: elf_strptr: Request error: no string table
> ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to /home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/bin/HybridCxxTests
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Error code 1
> The following command caused the error:
> c++         -Wno-deprecated -I/usr/openwin/share/include -fPIC  HybridCxxTests.o  BoxWidget.o  TestImplicitPlaneWidget.o  ImagePlaneWidget.o  PushTest.o  TestSplineWidget.o  TestScalarBarWidget.o  TestLineWidget.o  TestPlaneWidget.o  TestPointWidget.o   -o /home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/bin/HybridCxxTests  -L. -L/home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/bin -L/usr/openwin/lib -lvtkHybrid -lvtkRendering -lvtkGraphics -lvtkImaging -lSM -lICE -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lsocket -lnsl -lX11 -lXext -lsocket -lnsl -lvtkftgl -lGLU -lGL -lvtkfreetype -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lsocket -lnsl -lvtkIO -lvtkFiltering -lvtkCommon -lthread -ldl -lm -lvtkpng -lvtktiff -lvtkzlib -lvtkjpeg -lvtkexpat -Wl,-R.:/home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/bin:/usr/openwin/lib 
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `/home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/bin/HybridCxxTests'
> Current working directory /home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/Hybrid/Testing/Cxx
> *** Error code 1
> The following command caused the error:
> make  all
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `default_target'
> Current working directory /home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/Hybrid/Testing/Cxx
> *** Error code 1
> The following command caused the error:
> cd /home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/Hybrid/Testing/Cxx; make default_target
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `default_target_Cxx'
> Current working directory /home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/Hybrid/Testing
> *** Error code 1
> The following command caused the error:
> make  all
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `default_target'
> Current working directory /home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/Hybrid/Testing
> *** Error code 1
> The following command caused the error:
> cd /home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK/Hybrid/Testing; make default_target
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `default_target_Hybrid_Testing'
> Current working directory /home/to41943/VTKall/VTK/src/VTK
> *** Error code 1
> The following command caused the error:
> make  all
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `default_target'
> 
> Could you please give me some advice about the versions of cmake, gcc, solaris, python and tcl under which VTK is known to compile without any problem ?
>  
> Could you also tell me what the ld: elf error: file TestPointWidget.o: elf_strptr: Request error: no string table does mean ?
> 
>  
> Thank you in advance.
>  
> Ginger