egcs/Solaris status

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 19990822212812.A16796@postal.thewrittenword.com >you write:
  > On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 05:01:51PM -0700, Igor Markov wrote:
  > >   Our sysadmin was able to build 2.95.1 this time ----
  > >   apparently the problems arose because he was building 2.95.1 with 2.95
  > >   (and were solved by using egcs-1.1.2).
  > > 
  > >   thanks for other details -- they are very useful,
  > 
  > We built 2.95.1 on Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7/SPARC with Sun as/ld and
  > gcc 2.95 without any problems. However, trying to build 2.95.1 on
  > these platforms with the Sun v5.0 compiler fails:
This is a bug in the Sun v5.0 compilers.  Use some other compiler for
bootstrapping

jeff