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Re: # of unexpected failures 768 ?
- From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave dot org>
- To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Rainer Orth <ro at cebitec dot uni-bielefeld dot de>, dclarke at blastwave dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:22:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: # of unexpected failures 768 ?
- Reply-to: dclarke at blastwave dot org
> On 31 October 2011 15:33, Rainer Orth wrote:
>> As an asside, I'd suggest to considerably reduce your set of configure
>> options: many of them are the default (like --without-gnu-ld
>> --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld, --enable-nls, --enable-threads=posix,
>> --enable-shared, --enable-multilib, --host=i386-pc-solaris2.8
>> --build=i386-pc-solaris2.8) or unnecessary
>> (--enable-stage1-languages=c).
>
> Yes, adding completely redundant options looks like cargo cult
> programming and just confuses anyone using the compiler who tries to
> work out how it was configured.
>
>> I'm uncertain if Solaris 8/x86 still supports bare i386 machines, so it
>> might be better to keep the default of pentiumpro instead.
>
> Solaris 8 won't run on anything less than pentium, I recently
> convinced someone else to stop building GCC for i386 on Solaris:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-10/msg00005.html
The Os is on Vintage support until March 2012. Also, I never had problems
with it before. As for "completely redundant options" I have been building
gcc like this for a while. also never a problem before.
This is a case of "magic configure incantation" required ? I certainly
hope not.
Dennis
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