Questions about bootstrap problem on Solaris

Brad Lucier lucier@math.purdue.edu
Fri Mar 22 12:18:00 GMT 2002


> 
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Brad Lucier wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out why bootstrap currently fails on Solaris.
> > [...]
> 
> FYI, RTH's patch now fixed this bootstrap failure for me (and closed
> target/5996), so I hope you're back to bootstrap land as well. ;-)

Yes, that's great, thanks r~.

> Just that now we have a different problem on sparc-sun-solaris2.8:
> 
>   checking size of long long... 8
>   checking size of float... 4
>   checking size of double... 8
>   checking size of long double... 16
>   checking size of void *... 8
>   checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... cross-compiling... unknown
>   checking to probe for byte ordering... guessing bigendian ...  unknown
>   configure: error: unknown endianess - sorry
>   gmake[1]: *** [configure-target-libffi] Error 1
>   gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/files/pfeifer/OBJ-0322-10:58'
>   gmake: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2

I'm not seeing this on sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8.  Do you need to start
in an empty build directory?

Brad



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