On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:08:05PM -0800, Greg Earle wrote:
> > # make
> > ===> Building for perl-base-5.6.0
> > `sh  cflags libperl.a miniperlmain.o`  miniperlmain.c
> >           CCCMD =  gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing
> > -I/usr/pkg/include -g -msoft-quad-float -O2 -DGCC2952_SPARC64_WORKAROUND   
> > /var/tmp/cc2Ees9x.s: Assembler messages:
> > /var/tmp/cc2Ees9x.s:495: Fatal error: Can't extend frag 99. chars
> > *** Error code 1
> 
> I'm pretty sure patch-ag specifies "-g -msoft-quad-float -O2 -DGCC2952..."
> for "optimize".  Change that to "-O -msoft-quad-float -DGCC2952_SPARC64..."
> and it'll work (note that you'll have to do "tail +2 patch-ag | md5" to
> gen a new MD5 checksum for the patch, and change files/md5 to reflect
> that new "patch-ag" MD5 checksum).
> 
> > I wouldn't mind so much if everything didn't depend on it, or if there were
> > package.
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas ?  My apologies if this isn't the right place to post
> > this problem.
> 
> Spank yourself for not reading the port-sparc mailing list archives for
> the last month to see my own posts on this very topic  :-P

*smack* OW!
*smack* OW!
*smack* OW!

Thanks all :)  I'll be sure to check the logs before asking next time.

Ian