-* The linker now supports linking PIC compiled code on SPARC SunOS. It still
-can not create SunOS shared libraries.
+* The linker now supports linking PIC compiled code on SPARC SunOS. It can
+also create SPARC SunOS shared libraries. The native SunOS linker will do this
+when linking code which has an undefined symbol, but the GNU linker requires
+the -shared option. For convenience when used with gcc -shared, the GNU linker
+will also create a shared library when given the -assert pure-text option,
+although this is not really what -assert pure-text should mean.