Re: bug building binutils-2.14 on sparc-solaris-9 without ar

[Marc Girod]

Sorry, I get into the same problem and find this old thread...

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Elliston <address@hidden> writes:

Ben> Can you tell us how/where you got your binutils sources and how
Ben> you ran configure? Clearly something is drastically wrong.

I got the binutils.tar.gz from a gnu mirror -- reproduced the problem
with both 2.15 and 2.16.

I am bootstrapping my Solaris 9, so have installed mostly binary
packages from the Sunfreeware.com site:

  gcc-small-3.3.2-sol9-sparc-local
  flex-2.5.31-sol9-sparc-local
  coreutils-4.5.4-sol9-sparc-local
  make-3.80-sol9-sparc-local

I now got myself through the problem by doing:

  cd binutils
  CC=gcc ./configure

before running the script mentioned in the binutils/README file.
This produced the missing Makefile.

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