On 7/16/22 22:59, Dennis Clarke via Gcc-help wrote:
I simply had to give this a try and maybe even be able to bootstrap gcc on this old old hardware. Just for fun and because I saw someone else trying gcc 3.4.6 on a Solaris 9 server. So firstly, yes, this is very real hardware but of course the old battery in the SPARCStation 20 prom gave up long ago. So I made the machine reasonably sane as 08:00:20:c0:ff:ee :)
Sorted it out just fine : ganymede$ ganymede$ uname -a SunOS ganymede 5.5.1 Generic_103640-12 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20 ganymede$ /opt/imed/gcc/gcc346/bin/gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ganymede$ That may be able to bootstrap a ver 5.x but I am not so sure when Solaris 2.5.1 was dropped entirely. Should be interesting to see. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
