http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48135
--- Comment #13 from ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE> 2011-03-17 15:12:12 UTC --- > --- Comment #12 from Denis Excoffier <Denis.Excoffier at airbus dot com> > 2011-03-17 14:43:35 UTC --- > (In reply to comment #11) >> I don't really understand Denis' reluctance to build a newer perl as a >> prerequisite > No problem with perl itself, i've a working perl-5.13.10 compiled on this > solaris8. It is that i try to build with as few prerequisites as possible: > currently, with only an old gcc and an old make (borrowed from sunfreeware, > you must know that on Solaris no default C compiler is installed) i am able > to build the last GCC, then the last GNU make, then the complete tool chain > (patch, m4, gzip, bison, tar, coreutils etc.) up to date. I see, but on the other hand this will be a fairly uncommon undertaking. Given that Solaris 8 is 11 years old by now, you will only rarely have a minimal software environment and suddenly develop the desire to bring that completely up to date :-) Btw., what's your reason to still be running Solaris 8? I'm the Solaris GCC maintainer and seriously consider to deprecate it for GCC 4.7. > I would have to also find a working binary perl, no big deal but if we can > avoid that using a few sed commands, that's perfect. Certainly not: either I can make make_sunver.pl work with the core perl glob, or the --disable-symver option will be made to work properly. Rainer