On Wed, 13 Jul 2022, 19:55 Daniel Santos via Gcc-help, <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello community, > > I am trying to build gcc on Sparc Solaris 9. > So far I am creating a directory sibling to the source distribution > directory and running configure from there. > One thing I don’t understand is why the base configure script does not > descend automatically to the gcc subfolder. > I have to go in there and run configure again. > Which shell are you using? See https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-solaris2 where it says to use ksh. > While running configure with the command line : > ../../gcc-3.4.6/gcc/configure —with-gnu-as —with-gnu-ld > and then make : it builds the files and when it gets to running ld I get > the error : > > /usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/bin/ld: target elf64-sparc not found > > I am building this gcc with the same version installed via sunfkeeware > packages. The reason for building it is that I need objective-c support and the > package does not have it. > > This ld error indicates that the ld executable being run is from solaris, > and not the gnu one I have in /usr/local/bin/ld > > Can anyone shed some light on this ? > The installation instructions do say to use the native linker, not the GNU binutils one. Again, see https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-solaris2 Passing --with-gnu-ld is wrong if it's finding and using the Solaris linker. Either adjust your PATH so the GNU one is found first, or stop telling GCC it's GNU ld when it isn't.
