9.2.0.6 patchset failure

o/s: HP-UX B.11.11
Oracle: 9.2.0.5

Applying the the 9.2.0.6 patchset and run into a weird relink error. The installer runs a make which in turn runc cc and ld - and ld complains that the parameters used are incorrect. ==snippet from install log==
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: cannot open +s: No such file or directory *** Error exit code 1
==

cc is executed as follows:
cc -Wl,+s -Wl,+n +DA2.0W +DS2.0 -o <rest of parameters>

Both the +s and +n parameters causes cc to fail. (I copy and pasted the relink into a shell script and manually tested it). Both seems to be valid params according to man pages.

+n = Causes the linker to load all object modules before searching any
archive or shared libraries.

+s = Indicates that at run-time, the shared library loader can use the
environment variables LD_LIBRARY_PATH/SHLIB_PATH

What makes this weird as testing a fresh/new 9.2.0.1 install on the

same platform runs into the same error - and this after 9.2.0.1 was
installed successfully some time ago and patched to 9.2.0.5. Unix
sysadmin says that no o/s patches have been installed since.

Will appreciate any ideas and pointers on this one. Thanks.

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Billy