Problem with Solaris 10 / SPARC

[Amos]

the reason why I tried to force all the settings to 64-bit is because
when I tried to
compile some of the dependent libraries as 32-bit, they failed.  As I
recall, the checks
for two of them simply would die at the default 32-bit compile.  When
I specified
ABI=64 for these particular ones, all was peachy.

   gmp-5.1.2   (32bit and 64bit)
   mpfr-3.1.1  (only 64bit)
   mpc-1.0.1   (only 64bit)

So, when I attempted the latest gcc, it would die because of the
conflict between
32bit and these 64bit libraries.  So that's when I attempted to force
it all as 64bit.

I was, however, able to compile gcc-4.0.2, so will now attempt to use that to
compile the latest.  Though, for gcc-4.0.2 to successfully compile, I
did have to
use GNU ld.  Is it still the recommendation that Sun ld be used, but GNU as on
Solaris SPARC?



On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:23 PM, vijay nag <vijunag@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the host tool chain that you are using to compile if by default emits
> -m64 you dont have to explicitly specify -m64 in CFLAGS. I recently did a
> cross compile of gcc-4.7.2 on build Amd64, host=Amd64 and
> target=i686-pc-linux-gnu. Whatever was required for target machine I changed
> the config scripts to have cflags=-m32. Some times config scripts outsmarts
> you despite you specifying a cross compile and configure scripts will need
> change then.
>
>