On 31 October 2011 15:33, Rainer Orth wrote: > As an asside, I'd suggest to considerably reduce your set of configure > options: many of them are the default (like --without-gnu-ld > --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld, --enable-nls, --enable-threads=posix, > --enable-shared, --enable-multilib, --host=i386-pc-solaris2.8 > --build=i386-pc-solaris2.8) or unnecessary > (--enable-stage1-languages=c).
Yes, adding completely redundant options looks like cargo cult programming and just confuses anyone using the compiler who tries to work out how it was configured. > I'm uncertain if Solaris 8/x86 still supports bare i386 machines, so it > might be better to keep the default of pentiumpro instead. Solaris 8 won't run on anything less than pentium, I recently convinced someone else to stop building GCC for i386 on Solaris: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-10/msg00005.html
