Re: Request for update to a web page

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Mike Moran wrote:
> Hi. Gerald Pfeifer has asked me to ask you to update the following page:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#*-*-solaris*
> 
> to include an example of the sort of errors you get when the solaris
> assembler is barfing on long symbols. I've include a couple of emails
> from the thread which give an example of the error you get.

Actually I had hoped that you would provide a patch for the web page
itself! ;-)

In any case, here is a patch to install/specific.html that I just
installed.

Gerald

Index: specific.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/install/specific.html,v
retrieving revision 1.51
diff -c -3 -p -r1.51 specific.html
*** specific.html	1999/10/08 17:53:54	1.51
--- specific.html	1999/10/17 02:11:15
*************** compiler, for example from <a href="http
*** 467,474 ****
  http://www.sunfreeware.com</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Sun as 4.X is broken in that it cannot cope with long symbol names.
  See the <a href="../faq.html#squangle">How to work around too long C++
! symbol names?</a> FAQ entry.</p>
  
  <p>Sun make in all known Solaris 1 (SunOS 4) and Solaris 2 releases has a
  broken <i>VPATH</i> mechanism, which means you must either:
--- 467,479 ----
  http://www.sunfreeware.com</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Sun as 4.X is broken in that it cannot cope with long symbol names.
+ A typical error message might look similiar to the following:
+ <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+ /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccMsw135.s", line 11041: error: can't compute      
+ value of an expression involving an external symbol.
+ </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
  See the <a href="../faq.html#squangle">How to work around too long C++
! symbol names?</a> FAQ entry for further information.</p>
  
  <p>Sun make in all known Solaris 1 (SunOS 4) and Solaris 2 releases has a
  broken <i>VPATH</i> mechanism, which means you must either:
*************** will be discarded automatically.</p>
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! <p><i>Last modified on October 7, 1999.</i></p>
  
  </body>
  </html>
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