It turns out that neither GNU make 3.80 nor 3.81 can build libjava on Solaris
with the Solaris linker because of the final "ver-sun" recipe. Probably not
worth fixing at this point, so this patch simply documents it instead.
Tested with "make doc", applied on all active branches as obvious.
2016-08-15 Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com>
* doc/install.texi (*-*-solaris2*): Fix version number and document
requirement on GNU make for building libjava with the Solaris linker.
--
Eric BotcazouIndex: doc/install.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/install.texi (revision 239324)
+++ doc/install.texi (working copy)
@@ -4511,7 +4511,7 @@ supported as cross-compilation target only.
@c alone is too unspecific and must be avoided.
@anchor{x-x-solaris2}
@heading *-*-solaris2*
-Support for Solaris 9 has been removed in GCC 4.10. Support for Solaris
+Support for Solaris 9 has been removed in GCC 5. Support for Solaris
8 has been removed in GCC 4.8. Support for Solaris 7 has been removed
in GCC 4.6.
@@ -4583,12 +4583,15 @@ features, so better stay with Solaris @command{ld}
plugin (@option{-fuse-linker-plugin}) with GNU @command{ld}, GNU
binutils @emph{must} be configured with @option{--enable-largefile}.
-To enable symbol versioning in @samp{libstdc++} with Solaris @command{ld},
+To enable symbol versioning in @samp{libstdc++} with the Solaris linker,
you need to have any version of GNU @command{c++filt}, which is part of
GNU binutils. @samp{libstdc++} symbol versioning will be disabled if no
-appropriate version is found. Solaris @command{c++filt} from the Solaris Studio
-compilers does @emph{not} work.
+appropriate version is found. Solaris @command{c++filt} from the Solaris
+Studio compilers does @emph{not} work.
+GNU @command{make} version 3.82 or later is required to build libjava
+with the Solaris linker.
+
Sun bug 4927647 sometimes causes random spurious testsuite failures
related to missing diagnostic output. This bug doesn't affect GCC
itself, rather it is a kernel bug triggered by the @command{expect}
