libffi related bootstrap failure on sparc-sun-solaris2.8

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

Gerald> I had a successful bootstrap on sparc-sun-solaris2.8, but am (again)
Gerald> seeing the following failure today:

I think I've seen other reports that 2.8 builds fine.
There's some email in my java folder from Brad Lucier implying that
this is the case.

Gerald>   checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... cross-compiling... unknown
Gerald>   checking to probe for byte ordering... guessing bigendian ...  unknown

I looked at the config.log snippet you sent.
This code from the test case fails:

    #if !BYTE_ORDER || !BIG_ENDIAN || !LITTLE_ENDIAN
     bogus endian macros
    #endif

How are these macros defined on your system?
We look for them in sys/types.h and sys/param.h.
Maybe there is a fixincludes problem of some kind?

Failing that we can find a way to improve the configure macro in
question.

Tom