Problem with Solaris 10 / SPARC

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 29 June 2013 14:02, Amos wrote:
> 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.

Did you try building those libraries as part of the GCC build, as
described at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC ? That should
automatically build them correctly and give you a working compiler
(probably 32-bit, but capable of building 64-bit objects too.)