Re: Solaris 8/SPARC bootstrap broken building 64-bit libgcc

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:51:02AM +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > Another possibility, which I think is more clear:
> 
> Looks good, but we could give a short explanation, for example:
> 
> Index: doc/install.texi
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v
> retrieving revision 1.151.2.45
> diff -u -r1.151.2.45 install.texi
> --- doc/install.texi    11 Jul 2003 23:08:47 -0000      1.151.2.45
> +++ doc/install.texi    15 Jul 2003 06:42:20 -0000
> @@ -3109,6 +3109,10 @@
>  For example, the linker may hang indefinitely.  The fix is to remove
>  @file{/usr/ucb} from your @env{PATH}.
> 
> +The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Sun tools so,
> +if you have @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} in your @env{PATH}, we recommend placing
> +@file{/usr/bin} before @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} for the duration of the build.
> +
>  All releases of GNU binutils prior to 2.11.2 have known bugs on this
>  platform.  We recommend the use of GNU binutils 2.11.2 or the vendor
>  tools (Sun @command{as}, Sun @command{ld}).
> 
> 
> I'm not a native English speaker, so feel free to improve and commit on the 
> 3.3 branch (I think this obviously falls under the "obvious rule").

If this passes "make doc", and I see no reason why it wouldn't, I agree
that this should go in 3.3 and trunk.


> Btw, did you see other problems with the POSIX tools on mainline?

Not with current sources, no.  Now that this has come up, I'll keep my
eye out for such problems, and will periodically try building using the
POSIX tools, just to check.


Phil

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