Re: gcc/gnat 3.3

[Adrian Hoe <AdrianHoe@nowhere.com>]

I am back with c.l.a. I was unable to access my news server few days 
ago. I think it should be a problem at my isp end.


Andreas Almroth wrote:
> Adrian Hoe wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone built gcc/gnat 3.3 for Sparc Solaris 9? I tried to build 
>> one from source but failed. Generated too many errors and I gave up. :(
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> 
> I have built a CSW build for SPARC and Intel Solaris 8, found at 
> http://www.blastwave.org.
> It does work with Solaris 9, but with the exception for that there is a 
> problem with threads on SPARC (as noted by several sources).
> I still have the build tree for native Solaris 9 on one of the servers, 
> so I might be able to schedule some time to test with other threading 
> libraries than the native one. But please let me know if interested...

Thanks for the link. I will check it out.





> The developers have changed the way of fiddling with threads (task 
> control in the run-time) to cater for the change in the thread API in 
> Solaris 9 in the later 5.01 source tree, but that change does not really 
> work when incorporated into the GCC tree the way I have tested it.
> The former method was very very specific to how GCC produces the 
> binaries, and the new method is somewhat less "hack'n'slashy", but I 
> don't seem to get it to work though.
> The fault most likely on my side of course...
> Using a "clean" 5.xx would probably be a way to verify...
> 
> BTW, just being curious, would you mind adding some meat on the 
> "generated too many errors"? Just interested to know what went wrong...

I was trying to re-generate the build errors. But I could not get to 
make bootstrap with Ada although I did:

% ../configure --enable-languages=c,ada

gnat was not built and I look into Make-lang, Ada was not in there. I 
don't know why.

I am using gcc-3.3.2 instead of 3.3 the last time I tried to build.
-- 
Adrian Hoe
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