[M3devel] Couple of CM3 build comments (Solaris/SPARC).

[Olaf Wagner]

On Tue, August 21, 2007 05:07, Alex Bochannek wrote:
> I finally got around to completing a successful buildship on Solaris 10
> on SPARC. Here are the steps I did.
>
> o Ran into all sorts of problems with make and ld and adjusted the
>   cm3.cfg to use GNU_MAKE = "gmake" and tweaked my PATH to use a GNU ld
>   and an ar. (Sidenote: Incidentally, gcc configure uses
>   --print-prog-name=ld to figure out what ld to use for itself and since
>   my installed gcc uses /usr/ccs/bin/ld I was concerned it wouldn't
>   work, but this isn't what is used later on anyway, so it didn't
>   matter.)
>
> o Ran into another problem with as and for some reason Tony's cm3.cfg
>   used /usr/ccs/bin/as, which chokes on the GNU as directives. Changed
>   cm3.cfg again.
>
> o Ran into compile problems with Gdb (looked like a C99 issue, but I
>   didn't investigate it further. Just ran a cm3 in m3gdb again and the
>   error is below.)

Without haveing investigated any of the issues above -- all this
sounds to me like you are using a quite old Solaris system. I'd like
to see the exact versions you and Tony use to build the  software
(uname -a). At least it might be a different worth to docuement.

Olaf
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