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Re: PATCH for Re: Bootstrap error with gcc-20020429 snapshot on Sun/ Solaris8
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, <glebourgeois at amadeus dot net>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 18:31:22 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: PATCH for Re: Bootstrap error with gcc-20020429 snapshot on Sun/ Solaris8
Just to make sure, I have not yet committed the patch below.
Should I? (It's too late for 3.1, but would fit for 3.1.1 and the
online docs.)
Gerald
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> "When in doubt, to the safe thing."
>
> How about the following patch?
>
> 2002-05-03 Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
>
> * doc/install.texi (Specific, *-*-solaris2*): Update passus on
> setting CONFIG_SHELL to /bin/ksh and remove alternate trick to
> (possibly) work around broken /bin/sh.
>
> Index: doc/install.texi
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v
> retrieving revision 1.92.2.21
> diff -u -3 -p -r1.92.2.21 install.texi
> --- doc/install.texi 2 May 2002 23:29:52 -0000 1.92.2.21
> +++ doc/install.texi 3 May 2002 11:50:01 -0000
> @@ -3470,9 +3470,7 @@ GCC you first have to install a pre-buil
> The Solaris 2 @command{/bin/sh} will often fail to configure
> @file{libstdc++-v3}, @file{boehm-gc} or
> @file{libjava}. If you encounter this problem, set @env{CONFIG_SHELL} to
> -@command{/bin/ksh} in your environment and run @command{make bootstrap} again.
> -Another possibility that sometimes helps is to remove
> -@file{*-*-solaris2*/config.cache}.
> +@command{/bin/ksh} in your environment before running @command{configure}.
>
> Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
> packages are needed to use GCC fully, namely @code{SUNWarc},