RE: gcc for solaris sparc 8

["Lourens Janse van Rensburg" <Lourens dot jansevanRensburg at intec dot co dot za>]

Hi, yes I'm using GCC 3.2.3 on Solaris 9.  Took me two days to get it
bootstrapped, but it works better than most other Solaris compilers.
Also: I copied my install directory (with the binaries, libs, headers)
to another Sparc box with Solaris 8, and it works fine too.

Remember that the shell on Solaris is at /usr/xpg4/bin/sh and not at
/bin/sh as you would normally expect.  Most of the GCC scripts and
makefiles assume that the shell is as /bin/sh.  So if you do a "make" or
"make install" you have to override it on the command line by saying
"make SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh install".

Or you could do a search & replace through the configure script and all
makefiles, to replace all occurrences of /bin/sh with /usr/xpg4/bin/sh.

Or try just making a symlink /bin/sh -> usr/xpg4/bin/sh if you have
permissions.

Good luck.  Keep trying until you succeed.

Lourens Janse van Rensburg...




-----Original Message-----
From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org] On
Behalf Of Eljay Love-Jensen
Sent: 17 September 2004 23:30
To: Jeff Beck; gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc for solaris sparc 8

Hi Jeff,

I use GCC 3.3.1 on Solaris 8 / SunOS 5.8 (SPARC).

You get get a pre-compiled GCC here: http://www.sunfreeware.com/

Personally, FOR SOLARIS, I recommend getting the GCC source and building
the compiler from scratch, because the compiler is sensitive to OS
version and patch levels.  If you put another patch level on, more
likely than not it'd behoove you to rebuild the compiler.

It's not TERRIBLY hard to build (if you already have a C compiler), but
it does take an hour-or-four.

HTH,
--Eljay