libstdc++ bootstrap failures on sparc-sun-solaris2.8 (analyzed)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:

| >>>>> Gabriel Dos Reis writes:
| 
| Gabriel> OK. I'm convinced that you have a working solution for 3.0.x (and
| Gabriel> maybe 3.1 if can't advance with Stephen's idea).  
| 
| Gabriel> Any objection?
| 
| Gabriel> |  I do not yet have a good idea
| Gabriel> | of how or where to have only gen-num-limits care about 32x64.
| 
| Gabriel> Nearly everything:
| 
| 	I was not referring to the methods affected by 32 vs 64.  What I
| meant was other than testing for gen-num-limits failure with my original
| patch, I don't know how or where to tie in knowledge that we are building
| on a 32x64 and should pretend as if we are cross-compiling *ONLY* for
| gen-num-limits. 

Ah OK, I misunderstood you.  Sorry.

| 	My question is: assuming we can know that we are performing 32x64
| (BIG IF), what do you want configure/Make to do instead of failing and
| re-trying?

Hmm, I was under the impression that we wanted to fake and copy generic
std_limits.h, no?   Or am I still being dense?

-- Gaby