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Re: building gcc 4.0.0 on Solaris
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- To: Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos <papadopo at shfj dot cea dot fr>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 15:13:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: building gcc 4.0.0 on Solaris
- References: <426FAC48.903@shfj.cea.fr> <200504302114.10579.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <42761A4F.4060407@shfj.cea.fr>
> OK, I guess the latest compilers from Sun ship with a better "as".
> Unfortunately I'm stuck with Sun Studio One 7 for now. Maybe it should
> be documented that a recent version of "as" is needed by gcc.
A version not affected by the bug. 4.0.0 bootstraps on Solaris 2.5.1 with
as: WorkShop Compilers 4.2 dev 13 May 1996
It looks like we need to document that as: Sun WorkShop 6 99/08/18 is
problematic.
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it looks like either the
> problem is not present on SPARC, or the comment is wrong: patch 4910101
> is for x86 platforms only.
The problem is definitely present on SPARC (see the relocation).
> In any case this looks wrong and needs to be fixed.
Yes, we should probably revisit the problem.
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Eric Botcazou