> On 31 October 2011 15:33, Rainer Orth wrote: >> As an asside, I'd suggest to considerably reduce your set of configure >> options: many of them are the default (like --without-gnu-ld >> --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld, --enable-nls, --enable-threads=posix, >> --enable-shared, --enable-multilib, --host=i386-pc-solaris2.8 >> --build=i386-pc-solaris2.8) or unnecessary >> (--enable-stage1-languages=c). > > Yes, adding completely redundant options looks like cargo cult > programming and just confuses anyone using the compiler who tries to > work out how it was configured. > >> I'm uncertain if Solaris 8/x86 still supports bare i386 machines, so it >> might be better to keep the default of pentiumpro instead. > > Solaris 8 won't run on anything less than pentium, I recently > convinced someone else to stop building GCC for i386 on Solaris: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-10/msg00005.html
The Os is on Vintage support until March 2012. Also, I never had problems with it before. As for "completely redundant options" I have been building gcc like this for a while. also never a problem before. This is a case of "magic configure incantation" required ? I certainly hope not. Dennis -- -- http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x1D936C72FA35B44B +-------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Dennis Clarke | Solaris and Linux and Open Source | | dcla...@blastwave.org | Respect for open standards. | +-------------------------+-----------------------------------+
