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Re: Configuring GCC build: doc patch
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 03:04:34PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng [mailto:hgs@dmu.ac.uk]
> > Sent: 19 July 2004 14:30
>
> > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> > [my suggestion "Do not use a relative path for configure" elided]
> > >
> > > Works fine for me. I think it's only certain hosts that have this
> > > problem, isn't it?
> >
> > My case was Solaris 9 sparc
>
> Ah yes, that was the one: came up only a couple of weeks ago.
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-07/msg00025.html
>
> > I don't know why it should fail in such a case.
>
> Some kind of discrepancy between Solaris shell semantics and other
> systems, at a guess, but I don't know.
See PR 13993, and especially my comments in PR 15668. This should not
be very hard to fix.
> "The Solaris 2 /bin/sh will often fail to configure libstdc++-v3, boehm-gc
> or libjava. We therefore recommend to use the following sequence of commands
> to bootstrap and install GCC:
>
> % CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
> % export CONFIG_SHELL
>
> and then proceed as described in the build instructions, where we strongly
> recommend using GNU make and specifying an absolute path to invoke
> srcdir/configure. "
This is an unrelated problem.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz