I am trying to get gpc up and running on a Sun Sparc 4 running Solaris 2.4

Whatever the source I try to compile and link, I get link errors :

% gpc -o hello hello.pas collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ld: fatal: file hello.pas: unknown type, unable to process using elf(3E) libraries ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to hello %

(I installed collect2 as indicated in the FAQ)

Another strange thing is that I am obliged to copy a whole load of gcc objects (crt1.o; crtbegin.o; crtend.o; crti.o; crtn.o) into my current directory to avoid additional problems. Without these objects being present I get :

% gpc -o hello hello.pas collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ld: fatal: file crt1.o: cannot open file; errno=2 ld: fatal: file crti.o: cannot open file; errno=2 ld: fatal: file crtbegin.o: cannot open file; errno=2 ld: fatal: file hello.pas: unknown type, unable to process using elf(3E) libraries ld: fatal: file crtend.o: cannot open file; errno=2 ld: fatal: file crtn.o: cannot open file; errno=2 ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to hello %

Is this a bug ? If not, I should be grateful if anybody could tell me where in the installation I've gone wrong.

With my thanks, David Lewis

Systems engineer UTC - France