Re: Compiling gcc-3.4.6 on sparc Solaris 9

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2022, 19:55 Daniel Santos via Gcc-help, <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
wrote:

> Hello community,
>
> I am trying to build gcc on Sparc Solaris 9.
> So far I am creating a directory sibling to the source distribution
> directory and running configure from there.
> One thing I don’t understand is why the base configure script does not
> descend automatically to the gcc subfolder.
> I have to go in there and run configure again.
>

Which shell are you using?

See https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-solaris2 where it says to
use ksh.


> While running configure with the command line :
> ../../gcc-3.4.6/gcc/configure —with-gnu-as —with-gnu-ld
> and then make : it builds the files and when it gets to running ld I get
> the error :
>
> /usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/bin/ld: target elf64-sparc not found
>
> I am building this gcc with the same version installed via sunfkeeware
> packages.


The reason for building it is that I need objective-c support and the
> package does not have it.
>
> This ld error indicates that the ld executable being run is from solaris,
> and not the gnu one I have in /usr/local/bin/ld
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this ?
>


The installation instructions do say to use the native linker, not the GNU
binutils one.
Again, see https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-solaris2

Passing --with-gnu-ld is wrong if it's finding and using the Solaris
linker. Either adjust your PATH so the GNU one is found first, or stop
telling GCC it's GNU ld when it isn't.