binutils on solaris 8

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:15:43PM -0400, E. Stuart Hicks wrote:
> Please reply back directly to this email account (hicks.147@osu.edu) as
> I really don't wish to join anymore mailing lists - I'm on enough as it
> is.
> 
> I'm having problems compiling binutils on Solaris 8.  The configure
> works fine, but the make fails like this:
> 
> [root@unknown binutils-2.9.1]# make
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/binutils-2.9.1/libiberty'
> gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I./../include -DHAVE_SYSCONF ./dummy.c 2>/dev/null
> make[1]: *** [dummy.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/binutils-2.9.1/libiberty'
> make: *** [all-libiberty] Error 2
> 
> [root@unknown binutils-2.9.1]# cd libiberty/
> [root@unknown libiberty]# gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I./../include
> -DHAVE_SYSCONF ./dummy.c
> In file included from dummy.c:46:
> functions.def: In function `main':
> functions.def:38: too few arguments to function `strstr'
> 
> [root@unknown libiberty]#
> 
> 
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?  I think it might be an issue with the
> standard libs, but I can't get glibc to compile because it claims no
> one's ported it to this particular system.  (Is there a way around that
> as well??  I'd love to get glibc onto this thing.  I think it'd solve a
> lot of other problems I've been having.)

Try a more recent version.  2.9.1 is ancient.  You should probably wait
for a 2.13.1 snapshot, since 2.13 doesn't work on Solaris.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer