4.4.0-RC bootstrap failed on i686-pc-solaris2.10

[Jonathan Wakely]

2009/5/5 Rainer Orth:
> Ian Lance Taylor writes:
>
>> Thanks for investigating this.  It sounds to me like you are saying that
>> gcc/configure.ac is incorrect in assuming that the i686-pc-solaris2.10
>> linker always supports hidden symbols.  If that is correct, then it
>> seems like a bug report would be appropriate.
>
> I could just reproduce the problem on mainline with a C-only build.  I've
> got to further investigate what's going on here.  I'm pretty sure the
> linker isn't the culprit, though: before I made the change, I verified with
> the Sun linker maintainers that .hidden support had been added to ld back
> in Solaris 9 days, and since there is only one ld, this cannot be the
> difference between the i386 (default) and i686 builds.

Hi Rainer,

I'm afraid I missed your reply today and went ahead and opened
http://gcc.gnu.org/PR40027 - and blamed the linker, feel free to
correct my ignorant guesses in that report :-)

> This make take a few days, though.

No problem, I'm not in a hurry for an answer, I was just updating my
build scripts for 4.4, but wasn't planning to use it until 4.4.1 at
least.

Thanks for looking into it,

Jonathan