Re: Errors bootstrapping CVS gcc on sparc-sun-solaris2.8

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:15:27PM -0500, Chris Lattner wrote:
> 
> cvs/gcc> ./configure --srcdir=`pwd` --enable-languages=c++,java
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

srcdir == objdir doesn't really work


> It seems to have built mostly fine, except that it eventually goes into
> the sparc-sun-solaris2.8/* directories and tries compiling stuff in there
> (for example boehm-gc).  I'm confused why the make scripts seemed to copy
> large chunks of source into this directory.  Is this intentional, or did
> something break during the build process?

That happens when srcdir == objdir.


> It seems really strange to have a gcc/libiberty/*.[co] and also have a
> gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/libiberty/*.[co] as well.

That's normal, and necessary.


> Does anyone know what could be the problem?  Would building in a
> seperate 'objdir' fix this problem?

Probably.  That's what's recommended in the instructions.  Try it and see.

I'm having occasional difficulty building on solaris 2.8 using the 3.0
branch, but I couldn't speak about the trunk right now.  (A bootstrap is
in progress.)


Phil

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