RE: Compiling 2.95.2 on Solaris 2.6 x86

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>cd /data/src/gcc
>gzip -d gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz
>tar xf gcc-2.95.2.tar
>mkdir gccobjs
>cd gccobjs
>../gcc-2.95.2/configure
>make bootstrap
>
>This resulted in the system.h header not being found for 
>texinfo/makeinfo,
>because it was looked for in 
>/data/src/gcc/gccobjs/texinfo/lib, when in fact
>it was in /data/src/gcc/gcc.2-95.2/texinfo/lib. i.e. the -I 
>../lib pointed
>to the object directories, not the source directories.

  That's strange.  Are you using GNU make?  Building when objdir != srcdir
requires a make utility that understands the VPATH macro, I don't know
whether the solaris make does or not.

  I don't have any immediate guesses to offer about the comparison 
failures.  

      DaveK
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