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Re: cannot bootstrap neither gcc-2.8.0-971206 nor egcs-971207 on sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3
On Thu, 11 December 1997, 01:30:37, eggert@twinsun.com wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 97 08:07:31 +0100
> From: Manfred.Hollstein@ks.sel.alcatel.de
>
> Looks like gcc/egcs on SunOS are seriously broken!
>
> I don't think it's a problem with SunOS in general. I'm not observing
> the bug on my sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 build with gcc 2.8 1997-12-10. I'm
> using SunOS 4.1.4 with all patches recommended by Sun, and compiling
> with -O; I tried -O4 and could still build stamp-attr without problem.
>
> The problem could be specific to SunOS 4.1.3; or it could be a Sun bug
> fixed by one of the Sun patches I've installed; or it could be
> something else.
>
> Here's how to find out which patches Sun recommends for SunOS 4.1.x.
>
> for SunOS: see:
> 4.1.3 ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/Solaris1.1.PatchReport
> 4.1.3_U1 ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/Solaris1.1.1.PatchReport
> 4.1.4 ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/Solaris1.1.2.PatchReport
Thanks for the info; I'll have to talk to our local IT about that.
But, the problem did occur only with the latest egcs-971207 snapshot;
up to egcs-971201 and egcs-1.0 everything was OK, even with -O9!