egcs 1.1b on sparc solaris2.5.1

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Yes, Sir Rafie wrote:
> I've decided to move to egcs 1.1b on a sparc solaris 2.5.1.
> 
> I'm wondering if I should install the gnu binutils or rely on the system
> as and ld etc.

If you do serious C++ work (especially with template and STL) you'll
probably need GNU as or change
  int flag_do_squangling;
to
  int flag_do_squangling = 1;
in gcc/cp/decl2.c.

You won't need GNU ld, though.

> If I do need to build gnu binutils, It seems that I can untar the
> binutils tar file under the egcs1.1b source tree.
> I need to confirm how to do this and where to put it.

It should work like that. Please check out the docs in the INSTALL
subdirectory and let us know if anything is unclear and could be improved.

Gerald
-- 
Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)      Vienna University of Technology
pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/