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+From: coho!daveg (Dave Gagne)
+Subject: Re: Problems with building emacs on SunOS 4.0 (EXPORT)
+Summary: SunOS 4.0_Export "cc -Bstatic" don't work.
+Organization: UBC Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Vancouver, Canada
+
+> Has anyone else seen similar problems?
+
+Yes indeed.  Anyone who does not live in the jolly US of A.
+
+  What you are encountering is a screw-up in SunOS 4.0_Export.  This
+problem only occurs in the "EXPORT" version of SunOS 4.0: ie the
+software which Sun ships outside of the USA.  The problem has something
+to do with Sun not wanting to ship their DES chips outside of the good
+'ole USA.  What we poor foreigners get instead is some buggered up
+software.
+
+  What all this means is that "cc -Bstatic ..." WILL NOT WORK ON SUNOS
+4.0 EXPORT without a little help from "ar".  The static C-library is
+/lib/libc.a, and this is where the problem occurs.  There are a bunch of
+.o files in there relating to DES stuff (des_crypt.o, des_soft.o, _crypt.o,
+etc).  All of them will case cc -Bstatic to die as you found with the
+errors:
+
+> _edata: ld: user attempt to redefine loader-defined symbol
+> _end: user attempt to redefine loader-defined symbol
+> _etext: /lib/libc.a(des_crypt.o): multiply defined
+
+  In order to make cc -Bstatic useful, you must remove all the
+brain-damaged .o files from /lib/libc.a.  To do this use
+
+  ar d /lib/libc.a des_crypt.o des_soft.o _crypt.o ....
+
+(Make a backup of /lib/libc.a first, you may decide you need the "real"
+thing someday).  Note that there are a bunch of these files, I can't
+remember all of them.  You will find them quick enough by trying to
+compile ANY C program, even one which does NOTHING.
+
+  After you have done this, Emacs should compile OK.  I was able to get
+both the "normal" text version and the X-windows (X11R2) version to 
+compile OK.  It seems to me that the Suntools version may not have worked,
+but I may just be halucinating.