Solaris 2.8 build

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On 2 Apr 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:
> As far as I know there is no PR for this.
> Please do create one.

Done.

libgcj/6158: libgcj won't bootstrap on sparc-sun-solaris2.8 if already installed

> Ideally we would check for this very early, in the top-level configure.
> If we check for it in libgcj then the user will have already built all
> the host tools before getting this error.

That's true (though that still would be better than a "regular" bootstrap
failure...)

> Does this problem not occur for libstdc++ and other target libraries?
> If not, why not?

I've never seen this apart from libgcj, and I'm building libstdc++ with
every bootstrap.

Gerald
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