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From: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Gerald Pfeifer)
To: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: target/6237: libffi/configure bootstrap failure on sparc-sun-solaris2.8
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 07:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204091454.g39EstH02980@nunki.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)


>Number:         6237
>Category:       target
>Synopsis:       libffi/configure bootstrap failure on sparc-sun-solaris2.8
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 09 07:56:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     
>Release:        3.1 20020409 (prerelease)
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: SunOS nunki 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
Architecture: sun4

	
host: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
build: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
target: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
configured with: /sw/test/gcc/cvs-3.1/configure --prefix=/sw/gcc-current --enable-languages=c,c++,java --enable-libgcj
>Description:
On sparc-sun-solaris2.8 --enable-libgcj triggers the following 
bootstrap failure in libffi/configure:
  checking size of double... 8
  checking size of long double... 16
  checking size of void *... 8
  checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... cross-compiling... unknown
  checking to probe for byte ordering... guessing bigendian ...  unknown
  configure: error: unknown endianess - sorry
  gmake[1]: *** [configure-target-libffi] Error 1
  gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/files/pfeifer/OBJ'
  gmake: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
but only if the machine (an UltraSPARC) is running a 32-bit kernel
   % isainfo -v
   32-bit sparc applications
and not if the machine is running a 64-bit kernel
   % isainfo -v
   64-bit sparcv9 applications
   32-bit sparc applications

See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-04/msg00029.html
and http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-04/msg00080.html
for the original reports.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
	
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-09 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-09  7:56 Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2002-04-09  8:08 davem
2002-04-09  8:14 davem
2002-04-11 16:18 rth
2002-04-12 15:56 rth
2002-04-16  1:06 Gerald Pfeifer
2002-04-23  0:43 rth

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