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target/6237: libffi/configure bootstrap failure on sparc-sun-solaris2.8
- From: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at (Gerald Pfeifer)
- To: gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:54:55 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: target/6237: libffi/configure bootstrap failure on sparc-sun-solaris2.8
>Number: 6237
>Category: target
>Synopsis: libffi/configure bootstrap failure on sparc-sun-solaris2.8
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 09 07:56:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
>Release: 3.1 20020409 (prerelease)
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: SunOS nunki 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
Architecture: sun4
host: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
build: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
target: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
configured with: /sw/test/gcc/cvs-3.1/configure --prefix=/sw/gcc-current --enable-languages=c,c++,java --enable-libgcj
>Description:
On sparc-sun-solaris2.8 --enable-libgcj triggers the following
bootstrap failure in libffi/configure:
checking size of double... 8
checking size of long double... 16
checking size of void *... 8
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... cross-compiling... unknown
checking to probe for byte ordering... guessing bigendian ... unknown
configure: error: unknown endianess - sorry
gmake[1]: *** [configure-target-libffi] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/files/pfeifer/OBJ'
gmake: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
but only if the machine (an UltraSPARC) is running a 32-bit kernel
% isainfo -v
32-bit sparc applications
and not if the machine is running a 64-bit kernel
% isainfo -v
64-bit sparcv9 applications
32-bit sparc applications
See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-04/msg00029.html
and http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-04/msg00080.html
for the original reports.
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