If you're planning on building GCC, then just get the generic source tar file. We are currently using GCC 3.3.1 on Solaris 2.6 and 8, and it's working great. However... You need to understand that if you plan to build on both platforms, you need to have GCC built for both platforms, and you can't mix and match - at least with C++. For example, you can't build a C++ library on Solaris 2.6 and then using it when building a C++ program on Solaris 2.8. There are symbol name differences due to changes in the Solaris headers that cause the C++ libraries to be incompatible between the two versions of Solaris. In addition, you can't build GCC on Solaris 2.6 and then compile with that compiler on Solaris 8. The reason for this is that when you build GCC, it fixes certain system header files, and keeps a local copy of the fixed version. These fixed versions for Solaris 2.6 cause problems when compiling on Solaris 8, because the system header files for Solaris 8 have changed since 2.6. However, if you just want to build stuff that will run on both platforms, then you just need to do all of your building on Solaris 2.6. Programs build on Solaris 2.6 will also run fine on Solaris 8. You just may miss out on certain Solaris 8 features... Hope that helps. Cheers, Lyle Taylor -----Original Message----- From: Ahu Unalan [mailto:aunalan@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 6:15 AM To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx; gcc@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: GCC 3.3 - GNU binutils 2.14 Hi all, We are planning to migrate from CAD-UL to GNU compiler. For C code compilation, we downloaded source codes of gcc 3.3 version for target 80386 CPU's. Our platform is sparc - SunOS - 5.6 and sparc - SunOS - 5.8 operating systems on Sun solaris 2.6 and solaris 2.8 SUNWS, Ultra-5_10 machines. Is this version appropriate to our system? If not, could you inform me about appropriate release? Also on assembler compilation, can we use GNU binutils 2.14 release? Thanks in advance. -- Ahu UNALAN Software Engineer Nortel Networks-NETAS
