gcc receipe and architecture comment

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Riccardo,

> Am 18.03.2015 um 08:55 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org>:
> 
> in the gcc receipe, which would be the last version that is supposed to run on solaris 9, I find this:
> 
> # We're not building GCC-4.7 on Solaris 9, because GCC-4.7 requires the
> # sparcv8+ architecture.
> # PACKAGING_PLATFORMS = solaris9-sparc solaris9-i386
> PACKAGING_PLATFORMS += solaris10-sparc solaris10-i386
> 
> Why is v8+ a problem? I understand we support UltraSPARC only anyway, be it 32 or 64 bit.
> I actually think to remember that the last operating system running on the "classic" SPARCs, is Solaris 8.

Nope, the minimum CPU level for Solaris 9 was sparcv8 whereas gcc 4.7 required sparcv8+
That does not mean you couldn’t just build with sparcv8+ and release for Solaris 9 as
it would work on any platform past stonehenge.

> I wanted to upgrade gcc there.

I am impressed by the level of your pain endurance.


Bets regards

  — Dago

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