[tcljava-dev] Tclblend and solaris

[Virden, L. W. <lv...@ca...>]

I am wondering if anyone has gathered tips on the modifications
necessary to the current tcljava code so that it will build on SPARC
Solaris.=20

The first problem I encountered is that the configure looks for:
Looking for /vol/javaNFS/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/sun4u/libjava.so

However, Sun uses the path

/vol/javaNFS/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/sparc/libjava.so

So I edited the tcljava.m4 file, as noted by the output from configure.
But configure doesn't seem to=20
Recognize that change.

So I decided to try and regenerate configure after making this change.
However, autoconf indicated that I needed an autoconf newer than ships
with Sun . So I get a newer one and use that.

I get farther at this point - now I'm told that the gcc in my
environment has a bug that breaks Tcl Blend and that I should use
another version.=20

So I set CC to point to a non-gcc compiler. That doesn't appear to
matter - configure continues to tell me that the gcc is broken.

checking for gcc... cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...=20
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... No

And then later:

checking for GCC 4.1.0 optimizer bug... yes
configure: error: This gcc release contains an optimizer bug that breaks
Tcl Blend, please use another version of gcc

The real problem, looking into the config.log, is:
configure:4564: checking for GCC 4.1.0 optimizer bug
configure:4601: cc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  >&5
cc: Warning: option -2 passed to ld
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- 2

Am I forced to use gcc? I'd prefer to use Sun's compiler.

Oh, and note that the version of gcc that was used, as far as I can
tell, earlier, was 3.3.1, not 4.1.0. I don't have a newer gcc
available...