Re: gcj-2.95.1 recipe for sparc-sun-solaris2.7

[Patrik Hagglund <patha at ida dot liu dot se>]

> (I added my binutils/install/bin to the start of my PATH but 
> configuring --with-gnu-ld seemed to ignore it and used the solaris ld 
> instead); can anyone confirm that's how --with-gnu-ld works (or explain 
> otherwise)?

From the gcc manual:

  GNU CC searches for a program named `as' in various directories;
  if the program it finds is GAS, then it runs GAS.

Obviously, /usr/ccs/bin/ is searched first on SunOS (before
$PATH?). --with-gnu-as and --with-gnu-ld seems to be obsolete. The
configure script seems to test the features of each program, at
least for as. This can probably be regarded as a bug in the
manual.

> Hmm, I didn't seem to have trouble with the garbage collector on 
> solaris2.6.  Could you give me an example of the trouble you had (or 
> point me to a thread in the archive and I'll dig it out).

The garbage collector couldn't find the stack base. This line can
be found in Boehm's changelog:

- Fixed Solaris 2.7 stack base finding problem.

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Patrik Hägglund