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Re: Configuring GCC build: doc patch

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:39:10PM +0100, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> 
> >>So I should ignore the entries in the docs about sparc64 then. I'll
> >>try that.  At the moment I have a downloaded binary version that
> >>works. but I can't get a binary of binutils-2.15 so I'll probably
> >>not get much chance to try this out for a while.
> >
> >Binutils 2.15 is broken on Solaris/SPARC.  Use binutils 2.14 instead or the
> >Sun tools.
> 
> Thank you.  I thought I was being particularly inept when I could
> not build that.  (I *wish* it were standard practice to ensure that
> configure "screams blue murder" on platforms _known_ not to work!)

If it had been known not to work before binutils 2.15 was released, we
would have fixed it :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
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