GCC 3.1.1 Build Problem

[Emil Block <blime at his dot com>]

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Emil Block wrote:
> 
> > Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Emil Block wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I am getting  the following error message during the build of GCC 3.1.1, and
>         [...]
> > > > -isystem /usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/include  -m64"  "LD=/usr/ccs/bin/ld"
> > >
> > > I think this is your problem. You need to build the latest binutils
> > > first, this will give you gnu-as and gnu-ld.
> 
> This statement is because it will not build (in my experience) with
> Sun's as and Sun's ld.  Binutils will, however, so you can use it
> as the stepping stone to a working Gcc.
> > >
> > > Next time you configure DON'T use --with-gnu-as and --with-gnu-ld;
> > > DO use
> > > configure --with-as=/usr/local/bin/as  --with-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld
> > >
> > > with the correct path to configure, gnu ld and gnu as.
> > > If you don't do this then the Java build will
> > > insist on finding /usr/ccs/bin/as and will fail because it won't
> > > accept the right options.
> 
> This is one of the places where it will blow up if the sun utils are
> used.
> 
> > Thanks for the fast response, but I'm a little confused.
> 
> No problem, and I'll explain more clearly
> >
> > I didn't configure with --with-gnu-as and --with-gnu-ld.  This is the
> > command I used:
> 
> no, but if you do that after building binutils you will get some
> progress.
> >
> > configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --disable-nls
> 
> This will almost certainly fail at some point.  GCC builds more happily
> with binutils.  This makes some kind of sense because it is code from
> another Gnu project, such that GCC people have access to it.
> 
> If for some reason you cannot use gnu as and gnu ld then I am at a loss
> as to how to help you.  Others may be able to, however.
> >
> > Emil Block
> 
> I hope this helps.
> >
>         Hugh


Hugh 

Thanks for your assistance. I followed your suggestion, and downloaded the
latest binutils from Sun Freeware for Solaris 2.7. I still received the same
build error message; however, based on your comment about the Sun AS and LD, and
the error message:

 "mksh: Fatal error in reader: = missing from replacement macro reference"

I checked and determined that the command "make bootstrap" was picking up the
Sun MAKE instead of the GNU MAKE because of the directory order in my PATH. The
following provided a successful build:

 "/usr/local/bin/make bootstrap" 

Thanks again!

Emil Block