On Solaris and OpenSolaris, the default is to build 32-bit executables, despite the fact that the operating system is 64-bit. I'm trying to build some code, which I did not write, but which gets confused what library it needs to link. The code is 64-bit, but it tries to link to a 32-bit GCC library, with the obvious failure. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7861 It fails as it tries to link /usr/local/gcc-4.4.4/lib/libstdc++.so which is a 32-bit library - the 64-bit version would be in /usr/local/gcc-4.4.4/lib/amd64/libstdc++.so (x84 processor) of /usr/local/gcc-4.4.4/lib/sparcv9/libstdc++.so (SPARC processor) Would it be possible to create a version of gcc, which defaults to 64-bit code and is incapable of producing 32-bit code? If I overwrote all the libraries in $PREFIX/lib with 64-bit versions i.e. $ cp $PREFIX/lib/amd64 $PREFIX/lib would that mess up gcc? I'm trying to build Sage, http://www.sagemath.org/ which consists of 300 MB of compressed source code. Sorting out all the 32-bit/64-bit issues is proving difficult, so I'm wondering if I can force the compiler to just build 64-bit. Dave I
