error compiling gcc 3.1.0 on Solaris 2.8

[Poul Petersen]

	Is /tmp a tmpfs file-system? It's easy to check:

bash-2.03# mount | grep ^/tmp
/tmp on swap read/write/setuid/size=1000m/dev=2 on Sun Mar 17 21:05:03 2002
        ^^^^

	We had some really strange problems building gcc 3.1 on a solaris
2.8 machine in /tmp when tmp was swap. The build would fail with errors
similar to yours, although most of the time it would fail with various "file
not found" errors. When I would check, the files would indeed not be there,
even though they *were* there when I unpacked the source. A good example is
the autoconf binaries which would always disappear from the source
directory. Incidentaly, are you using a separate directory for the source
and object files? We also had a problem with "make install" and trying to
use a relative path to configure. That is, with the structure:

	/tmp/gcc/gcc-3.1	source
	/tmp/gcc/obj	object directory
	
	If from /tmp/gcc/obj I issued "../gcc-3.1/configure" then "make
install" would fail with an error that it could not find "install-sh". Using
the fully qualified path "/tmp/gcc/gcc-3.1/configure" worked fine though.

Hope this helps,

-poul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ziying Sherwin [mailto:sherwin@nlm.nih.gov]
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:03 PM
> To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: error compiling gcc 3.1.0 on Solaris 2.8
> 
> 
> 
> We tried to build gcc 3.1.0 on our Solaris 2.8 machine. When 
> we were buiding
> 32 bits compiler, we got the following error message:
> 
> /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc 
> -B/tmp/gccbuild_32bit/gcc/ -nostdinc++ 
> -L/tmp/gccbuild_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/sparcv9/libstdc++-v
> 3/src 
> -L/tmp/gccbuild_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/sparcv9/libstdc++-v
> 3/src/.libs 
> -B/depot/package/gcc_3.1.0_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ 
> -B/depot/package/gcc_3.1.0_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/lib/ 
> -isystem 
> /depot/package/gcc_3.1.0_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/include  
> -m64 -shared -nostdlib /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/gcc/sparcv9/crti.o 
> /usr/lib/sparcv9/values-Xa.o 
> /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/gcc/sparcv9/crtbegin.o  .libs/globals.o 
> .libs/limits.o .libs/basic_file.o .libs/complex_io.o 
> .libs/ios.o .libs/strstream.o .libs/cmath.o .libs/bitset.o 
> .libs/functexcept.o .libs/stdexcept.o .libs/vterminate.o 
> .libs/c++locale.o .libs/locale.o .libs/localename.o 
> .libs/codecvt.o .libs/collate.o .libs/ctype.o 
> .libs/messages.o .libs/monetary.o .libs/numeric.o 
> .libs/time.o .libs/concept-inst.o .libs/locale-inst.o 
> .libs/misc-inst.o .libs/stl-inst.o .libs/string-inst.o 
> .libs/wstring-inst.o .libs/valarray-inst.o .libs/ext-inst.o 
> -Wl,--whole-archive ../libmath/.libs/libmath.a 
> ../libsupc++/.libs/libsupc++convenience.a 
> -Wl,--no-whole-archive  
> -L/tmp/gccbuild_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/sparcv9/libstdc++-v
> 3/src 
> -L/tmp/gccbuild_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/sparcv9/libstdc++-v
> 3/src/.libs -lm ../libmath/.libs/libmath.a -lm 
> ../libsupc++/.libs/libsupc++convenience.a -lm 
> -L/tmp/gccbuild_32bit/gcc/sparcv9 -L/tmp/gccbuild_32bit/gcc 
> -L/usr/ccs/bin/sparcv9 -L/usr/ccs/bin -L/usr/ccs/lib/sparcv9 
> -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/lib/sparcv9 
> -lgcc_s_sparcv9 -lgcc_s_sparcv9 -lm -lgcc_s_sparcv9 
> -lgcc_s_sparcv9   -lc 
> /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/gcc/sparcv9/crtend.o 
> /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/gcc/sparcv9/crtn.o  -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-soname 
> -Wl,libstdc++.so.4 -o .libs/libstdc++.so.4.0.0
> .libs/globals.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `libstdc++.la'
> Current working directory 
> /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/sparcv9/libstdc++-v3/src
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> Current working directory 
> /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/sparcv9/libstdc++-v3
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `multi-do'
> Current working directory 
> /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/libstdc++-v3
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-multi'
> Current working directory 
> /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/libstdc++-v3
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
> Current working directory 
> /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/libstdc++-v3
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive-am'
> Current working directory 
> /tmp/gccbuild_32bit/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/libstdc++-v3
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-target-libstdc++-v3'
> 
> Any ideas about what might go wrong? Thanks,
> 
> I am not on the mailing list, please reply to sherwin@nlm.nih.gov.
> 
> Ziying Sherwin
>