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Re: building binutils on Solaris 9
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:54:02AM +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > Attached is the output of `make check` for snapshot 050126 (downloaded
> > from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/snapshots/
> >
> > These binutils were built with gcc-3.3.5 (bootstrapped using native Sun's
> > cc) with the following:
> > ../binutils-050126/configure --prefix=/opt/builder/toolchain
> > --disable-nls --host=sparc64-sun-solaris2.9
> > make (this is GNU make)
>
> I presume your gcc-3.3.5 uses the Sun tools and not GNU binutils, right?
Yes.
> If so, take a look at the full log: almost all failures come from an
> invocation of the compiler. Specifically, the compiler is asking the Sun
> linker to do things it doesn't support. Of course the Sun linker should
> never be invoked in the first place but it is. I can reproduce with a
> compiler configured --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld.
Good. That explains a lot. I'll build a new gcc using these binutils and
then build new binutils using that gcc and see what happens.
> The nominal mainline CVS testsuite results on sparc64-sun-solaris2.9 are:
Thanks, this'll be useful when I'm done.
I'll post the results later.
Regards,
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