Re: i386-pc-solaris2.5.1: recent snapshots can't build emacs-20.2

[Jim Meyering <meyering at ascend dot com>]

|   In message <87yasnenke.fsf@ascend.com>you write:
|   > Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> writes:
|   >
|   > |   In message <873eawf8n0.fsf@ascend.com>you write:
|   > |   > I did try to build a few `cvs update -D DATE'-selected
|   > |   > versions of egcs, but none of them bootstrapped.  What version
|   > |   > of CVS is running on Cygnus' egcs repository?
|   > | cvs-1.9.21, but that really shouldn't have anything to do with being unab
|   > le
|   > | to bootstrap egcs
|   > |
|   > | What problems are you having bootstrapping?
|   >
|   > Here's what I got when trying to bootstrap the official egcs-19980615
|   > snapshot:
| [ ... ]
| OK.  This has nothing to do with whatever cvs version we're running.  It
| sounds more like the typical development instability.  What happens if
| you try to build something newer, paricularly off the egcs-1.1  branch?

I've been doing that (with the trunk, then, since the branch, with 1.1)
for more than a month.  It works fine.  Of course, using the resulting
compiler to try to build emacs is what fails.