From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10412 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2003 07:01:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 10397 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2003 07:01:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.libertysurf.net) (213.36.80.91) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Jul 2003 07:01:09 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (213.36.54.146) by mail.libertysurf.net (6.5.026) id 3F07E6DC001AD00C; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:01:03 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Eric Botcazou To: Phil Edwards Subject: Re: Solaris 8/SPARC bootstrap broken building 64-bit libgcc Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 07:47:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: Rainer Orth , gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <16133.30814.486754.373909@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <200307150100.00527.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <20030714235950.GA20335@disaster.jaj.com> In-Reply-To: <20030714235950.GA20335@disaster.jaj.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200307150851.02373.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> X-SW-Source: 2003-07/txt/msg01117.txt.bz2 > Another possibility, which I think is more clear: Looks good, but we could give a short explanation, for example: Index: doc/install.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/doc/install.texi,v retrieving revision 1.151.2.45 diff -u -r1.151.2.45 install.texi --- doc/install.texi 11 Jul 2003 23:08:47 -0000 1.151.2.45 +++ doc/install.texi 15 Jul 2003 06:42:20 -0000 @@ -3109,6 +3109,10 @@ For example, the linker may hang indefinitely. The fix is to remove @file{/usr/ucb} from your @env{PATH}. +The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Sun tools so, +if you have @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} in your @env{PATH}, we recommend placing +@file{/usr/bin} before @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} for the duration of the build. + All releases of GNU binutils prior to 2.11.2 have known bugs on this platform. We recommend the use of GNU binutils 2.11.2 or the vendor tools (Sun @command{as}, Sun @command{ld}). I'm not a native English speaker, so feel free to improve and commit on the 3.3 branch (I think this obviously falls under the "obvious rule"). Btw, did you see other problems with the POSIX tools on mainline? -- Eric Botcazou