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[wwwdocs] more info about the Sun 4.x as lossage
- To: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: [wwwdocs] more info about the Sun 4.x as lossage
- From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:44:55 -0500
Here's some minor additions to the install/specific page. The bug
involving long symbol names in Sun's 4.x assembler has a patch available;
let's mention it. I'll commit this later today.
Index: specific.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/install/specific.html,v
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -c -r1.81 specific.html
*** specific.html 2001/03/27 23:57:29 1.81
--- specific.html 2001/03/30 22:28:38
***************
*** 542,549 ****
/usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccMsw135.s", line 11041: error: can't compute
value of an expression involving an external symbol.
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
! <p>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:
--- 542,551 ----
/usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccMsw135.s", line 11041: error: can't compute
value of an expression involving an external symbol.
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
! <p>This is Sun bug 4237974. See the <a href="../faq.html#squangle">How
! to work around too long C++ symbol names?</a> FAQ entry for further
! information and a workaround. This is fixed with patch 108908-02 and
! has been fixed in later (5.x) versions of the assembler.</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: