how to build for solaris 8?

[Phil Edwards]

> I suppose the message should read:
>
> **  There does not appear to be a previously-built
> **  library here.  Please see 
> **  http://sourceware.cygnus.com/libstdc++/install.html
> **  And in particular, the 
> **  "Building and Installing the library (without GCC sources)" parts

I've tweaked it up already, but I hadn't thought to add the URL.
Good idea; I'll do that before I check anything in.


> Configure information should be added--I just noticed that configuring is 
> not discussed. Whoops!
>
> Here's the deal:
>
> 1) if you are enabling namespaces, you'll need to configure the entire 
> gcc directory, not just libstdc++. This will enable the build directory 
> to have both gcc and libstdc++ directories, and thus libgcc.a can be rebuild.
> cd (blddir)
> (gccsrcdir)/configure --prefix=(installdir)
>
>
> 2) If you don't care about this, and want to just rebuild the library, 
> you can configure in just libstdc++ but you must pass in
> --disable-namespaces --disable-libgcc-rebuild on the configure line, like so:
>
> cd (blddir)
> (gccsrcdir)/libstdc++/configure --disable-namespaces 
> --disable-libgcc-rebuild --prefix=(installdir)

And this.  Snapshot still on for tomorrow?

Phil