Recommended method of building GCC on Solaris

[Carl B. Constantine]

*On Wed Apr 30, 2003 at 11:32:38AM -0400, Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) wrote:
> * Carl B. Constantine (cconstan@csc.UVic.CA) wrote:
> > I found that if I eliminated the $CFLAGS and $CPPFLAGS environemnt
> > variables, it compiles on Sparc. But the funny thing is, I can use those
> > variables successfully on Solaris 8 for Intel without problems.
> 
> I'm currently making an attempt to compile gcc as 64bit on Solaris 9.
> Should be fun to see what happens...  I get the impression it's not
> going to pan out in the end. :)
> 
> 	Stephen

I tried that as well. It seems you can't compile gcc itself as a 64bit
app. It includes a file called libelf.h which has this pragma in it:

#if defined(_ILP32) && (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS != 32)
#error "large files are not supported by libelf"
#endif

At least you can't use -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS = 64 in your CPPFLAGS. This
is really odd because I'm sure I was able to use that on Solaris x86.
*shrug*

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