gcc-4.0.0 for sparc-sun-solaris2.8: Almost all good!

[Benjamin Kosnik]

> Yes, patching binutils-2.15 as described in INSTALL/specific.html
> (oops) does seem to fix my link-time issues with Solaris.  I won't ask
> why this wasn't enough to warrant a binutils-2.15.1 :)  

I hear you. This has produced a lot of unnecessary confusion.

> Heh :)  Ok, I'll do the same with that.  Is there a branch already, or
> do I just use the mainline?

It's in mainline. Thanks.

> I've given on up (almost all) native Solaris builds; it just takes way
> too much time on the boxes I have, but I can cross-compile all my
> stuff (instead of the test suite) and at least give that level of
> comfort, which admittedly is not as useful.  Hmmm, I wonder if the
> testsuite can be tweaked so I can do the compile steps on one box and
> ssh to a box with the same filesystem mounted for the run steps :)

That does seem to be the smart way to test, time-wise. Sorry I'm not
more helpful: I don't get out to other os's much these days. 

Mainline builds will be faster if you use --disable-checking
--enable-languages=c,c++

-benjamin