Re: NetBSD tools/gmp build.sh issues on Solaris-11.4

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:41:21 +0000 (UTC)
Palle Lyckegaard <palle%freeshell.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Sad Clouds wrote:
> 
> > I'm using Solaris-11.4 CBE which was not updated for a number of years.
> > You seem to be running the latest SRU with all the fixes. I don't use
> > Solaris for any commercial purposes, so would need to wait until Oracle
> > decide to update CBE with a new version.
> 
> src/tools/compat/README has a section (Solaris 11.4 (CBE)) which I added 
> back in 2023.
> I apparently was able to build NetBSD using the provided gcc-11 compiler. 
> Any reason that you are using your own compiled gcc-13?
> 
> 

Hi, I missed it, since this section seems to be in NetBSD-current, but
I'm building NetBSD-10. Looks like I did not set HOST_SH to /bin/bash,
so maybe this caused some issues. I will try again tomorrow.

With regard to GCC, Sun/Oracle have not been very good at providing
GCC packages for Solaris. I still have obsolete hardware like Ultra10
and T5220 which can only be used with Solaris-10 and Solaris-11.3.
Building my own compiler gives me flexibility to use it with different
versions of Solaris. But latest versions of GCC are now dropping
support for older versions of Solaris anyway.