Re: [Queue-developers] solaris gcc cross-compile cure

[W. G. K. <wer...@ya...>]

AFAIK, the solution is to use a development (CVS) version of GNU Autoconf, one
reason that having ./configure and other autoconf stuff in the GQ CVS
respository is a good idea IMHO.

Sam Liddicott wrote:

> The reason ./configure thinks solaris gcc is a cross compiler is because
> some of the test cases (like to detect endian-ness) fail either way; so it
> assumes the test could not run because it is a cross compiler.
>
> I looked at why the bigendian test failed to run either way, it seems to be
> because solaris does *NOT* define either:
> BYTE_ORDER
> or
> BIG_ENDIAN
> or
> LITTLE_ENDIAN
>
> anywhere!  (Well, maybe in /usr/include/arpa/nameser_compat.h (ultimatly
> included from resolv.h) but possibly that is not part of the standard
> install?)
>
> /usr/include/sys/isa_defs.h DOES define _LITTLE_ENDIAN, _BIG_ENDIAN but not
> BYTE_ORDER
> _BIG_ENDIAN and _LITTLE_ENDIAN are not defined to have values, but just to
> be "set"
>
> BYTE_ORDER is only defined in name_ser.compat
>
> So whats the best way to solve this for solaris?
>
> Sam
>
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