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kkaempf@didymus.rmi.de (Klaus Kaempf) writes:

>I'm trying to install GCC 2.3.2 on a Sparc 2 running Solaris 2.0.
>I have the Cygnus port of GCC 2.0.2 (taken from the Prime Time
>Freeware CD, Vol 1, No 2b, July 92) up and running on the system,
>but without the GNU assembler.
>Compiling GCC 2.3.2 stops at the file term.c where the Solaris Assembler
>(the one in /usr/ccs/bin/as) finds several
>  'expressions involving an external symbol'
>which it can't compute. I haven't tried porting GAS yet, fearing it could
>encounter the same error. Now I'm asking the net, what is the right approach
>to get GCC 2.3.2 running on Solaris 2.0 ??

I had the same problem on Solaris 2.1. Inspecting the generated assembly
file I concluded that the error the assembler complained about
was in the .stab[sn] entries, the debugging information.
(I didn't take time to see whether this was cygnus-2.0.2's fault
or a bug in /usr/ccs/bin/as)

I proceeded to build gcc 2.3.2 with cygnus-2.0.2 by compiling
without -g. (I.e., make CFLAGS= or CFLAGS=-O)

The build completed without any further problems.

Casper