On 21 March 2013 15:25, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > One of the items that I personally feel would be of great value would be some > mechanism to indicate that the bootstrap process actually succeeds. At the > moment my 4.8.0 RC bootstrap simply comes to a grinding halt with an > error message : > . > . > . > ranlib rts_sparcv8plus/libgnarl.a > /usr/ccs/bin/ar rc rts_sparcv8plus/libgmem.a \ > rts_sparcv8plus/memtrack.o > ranlib rts_sparcv8plus/libgmem.a > chmod a-wx rts_sparcv8plus/*.ali > touch ../stamp-gnatlib-rts_sparcv8plus > gmake[7]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/build/gcc-4.8.0-RC-20130316_sparc64-sun-solaris2.10.001/gcc/ada' > mv -f libgna*.so rts_sparcv8plus > gmake[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/build/gcc-4.8.0-RC-20130316_sparc64-sun-solaris2.10.001/gcc/ada' > gmake[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/build/gcc-4.8.0-RC-20130316_sparc64-sun-solaris2.10.001/gcc/ada' > rm -rf adainclude > rm -rf adalib > ln -s ../../.././gcc/ada/rts_sparcv8plus adainclude > ln -s ../../.././gcc/ada/rts_sparcv8plus adalib > true DO=all multi-do # /usr/local/bin/gmake > gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/build/gcc-4.8.0-RC-20130316_sparc64-sun-solaris2.10.001/sparc64-sun-solaris2.10/sparcv8plus/libada' > gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/build/gcc-4.8.0-RC-20130316_sparc64-sun-solaris2.10.001/sparc64-sun-solaris2.10/libada' > gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/build/gcc-4.8.0-RC-20130316_sparc64-sun-solaris2.10.001/sparc64-sun-solaris2.10/libada' > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/build/gcc-4.8.0-RC-20130316_sparc64-sun-solaris2.10.001' > gmake: *** [all] Error 2 > > bash-4.2$ > > > Well what does that mean ? I sure can't think "success" is the word of the day when I > see "Error 2" as the last line of output. It's not, it means something failed. Have you tried redirecting the output (both stdout and stderr) to a file and seeing what failed? If bootstrap completes successfully you don't get that error.