build: In some case the flags for the sun studio linker are wrong

In this case we test if the -Wl,-h,%s works and if so use this form

Autobuild-User: Matthieu Patou <mat@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date: Sun Oct 31 16:35:17 UTC 2010 on sn-devel-104

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_conftests.py b/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_conftests.py
index 49cd4ff17c..4811614ab7 100644
--- a/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_conftests.py
+++ b/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_conftests.py
@@ -94,6 +94,20 @@ def find_config_dir(conf):
     return dir
 
 @conf
+def CHECK_SHLIB_INTRASINC_NAME_FLAGS(conf, msg):
+    '''
+        check if the waf default flags for setting the name of lib
+        are ok
+    '''
+
+    snip = '''
+int foo(int v) {
+    return v * 2;
+}
+'''
+    return conf.check(features='cc cshlib',vnum="1",fragment=snip,msg=msg)
+
+@conf
 def CHECK_SHLIB_W_PYTHON(conf, msg):
     '''check if we need -undefined dynamic_lookup'''
 
diff --git a/buildtools/wafsamba/wscript b/buildtools/wafsamba/wscript
index 90aeb45582..b9b06abfe8 100644
--- a/buildtools/wafsamba/wscript
+++ b/buildtools/wafsamba/wscript
@@ -275,6 +275,16 @@ def configure(conf):
     else:
         conf.ADD_CFLAGS('-fPIC', testflags=True)
 
+    # On Solaris 8 with suncc (at least) the flags for the linker to define the name of the
+    # library are not always working (if the command line is very very long and with a lot
+    # files)
+
+    if conf.env['COMPILER_CC'] == "suncc":
+        save = conf.env['SONAME_ST']
+        conf.env['SONAME_ST'] = '-Wl,-h,%s'
+        if not conf.CHECK_SHLIB_INTRASINC_NAME_FLAGS("Checking if flags %s are ok" % conf.env['SONAME_ST']):
+            conf.env['SONAME_ST'] = save
+
     conf.CHECK_INLINE()
 
     # check for pkgconfig