Thank you for the help. The use of ksh got me past this problem. I appreciate your time and efforts. Thanks, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Garey Mills [mailto:gmills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:28 PM To: Kai Ruottu Cc: powell, dan; gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Problem building GCC 4.2.1 for Solaris 8 I believe that I remember what the issue was. It had to do with which shell to execute the make in. In any case, as Kai Ruottu pointed out, the answer was in the installation docs. Garey Mills PS. I took a quick scan, and here it is, from the sun-solaris2 part of the hardware specific install instructions The Solaris 2 /bin/sh will often fail to configure libstdc++-v3, boehm-gc or libjava. We therefore recommend using the following initial sequence of commands % CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh % export CONFIG_SHELL and proceed as described in the configure instructions <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html>. In addition we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke srcdir/configure. Kai Ruottu wrote: > powell_dan@xxxxxxx wrote: > >> It's interesting that I have come across the exact same problem that >> Garey Mills did. Was there ever a follow-up to his posting? >> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2007-09/msg00179.html > > The usual reason could be that the "Prerequisites" was not read from > the Install instructions at gcc.gnu.org... Like that using GNU make > is obligatory... > >
