Re: the struggle to create a 64-bit gcc on Solaris 10

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave dot org>]

> > nope. Been there .. done that and that fails badly .. in fact worse 
> than
> > before :
> 
> Yet this is the standard way and works flawlessly if done correctly...

I can not see my error here and am wondering what the issue is. 
 
> > However I am way way open to suggestion here.
> 
> You need to configure everything with --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 
> and 
> compile everything with a 64-bit compiler, i.e. all compilers ever 
> invoked 
> must generate 64-bit code *by default*.  This can mean setting CC and 
> CXX to 
> appropriate values, e.g. "gcc -m64" and "g++ -m64" or the Sun equivalent.

I am using gcc and g++ here. 

So, in any case .. looks like I am back to square zero. 

Thanks for the input. 

dc