[Bug bootstrap/21870] New: Build fails with unknown endianess

["aaronw at net dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

loading cache ../config.cache 
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /opt/gcc3.3/bin/ginstall -c 
checking whether build environment is sane... yes 
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes 
checking for working aclocal... found 
checking for working autoconf... found 
checking for working automake... found 
checking for working autoheader... found 
checking for working makeinfo... makeinfo: Cannot find ELF 
../../../../libffi/configure: line 2163: 26778 Killed                  
( makeinfo --version ) </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 
missing 
checking for executable suffix... (cached) no 
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no 
checking for gcc... (cached) /var/tmp/gcc3/gcc-3.3.6/sparc-solaris-2.8/gcc/xgcc 
-B/var/tmp/gcc3/gcc-3.3.6/sparc-solaris-2.8/gcc/ 
-B/opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ -B/opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/lib/ 
-isystem /opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/include  -m64 
checking whether the C compiler 
(/var/tmp/gcc3/gcc-3.3.6/sparc-solaris-2.8/gcc/xgcc 
-B/var/tmp/gcc3/gcc-3.3.6/sparc-solaris-2.8/gcc/ 
-B/opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ -B/opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/lib/ 
-isystem /opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/include  -m64 -O2 -g -O2 ) works... 
yes 
checking whether the C compiler 
(/var/tmp/gcc3/gcc-3.3.6/sparc-solaris-2.8/gcc/xgcc 
-B/var/tmp/gcc3/gcc-3.3.6/sparc-solaris-2.8/gcc/ 
-B/opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ -B/opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/lib/ 
-isystem /opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/include  -m64 -O2 -g -O2 ) is a 
cross-compiler... yes 
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes 
checking whether /var/tmp/gcc3/gcc-3.3.6/sparc-solaris-2.8/gcc/xgcc 
-B/var/tmp/gcc3/gcc-3.3.6/sparc-solaris-2.8/gcc/ 
-B/opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ -B/opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/lib/ 
-isystem /opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/include  -m64 accepts -g... (cached) 
yes 
checking how to run the C preprocessor... 
(cached) /var/tmp/gcc3/gcc-3.3.6/sparc-solaris-2.8/gcc/xgcc 
-B/var/tmp/gcc3/gcc-3.3.6/sparc-solaris-2.8/gcc/ 
-B/opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ -B/opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/lib/ 
-isystem /opt/gcc3.3/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/include  -m64 -E 
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) no 
checking for memcpy... (cached) yes 
checking for working alloca.h... (cached) yes 
checking for alloca... yes 
checking size of short... 2 
checking size of int... 4 
checking size of long... 8 
checking size of long long... 8 
checking size of float... 4 
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 
make: *** [configure-target-libffi] Error 1 
 
 
Compiled with: 
 
bzip2 -dc gcc-3.3.6.tar.bz2 | tar xf - 
cd gcc-3.3.6 
mkdir sparc-solaris-2.8 
cd sparc-solaris-2.8 
/bin/bash ../configure  --host=sparc-sun-solaris2.8 --prefix=/opt/gcc3.3 
--enable-shared --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/opt/gcc3.3/bin/ld --with-gnu-as 
--with-as=/opt/gcc3.3/bin/as --with-cpu=ultrasparc 
make 
 
The source compiler is gcc 3.3.6 with a different prefix... I can get things to 
compile if I hack things up a bit but this is from a clean compile. 
 
binutils is version 2.16

-- 
           Summary: Build fails with unknown endianess
           Product: gcc
           Version: 3.3.6
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: bootstrap
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: aaronw at net dot com
                CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
  GCC host triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
GCC target triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2.8


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21870