On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Ian Main wrote:

> OK, stuck again :)
> 
> Trying to build perl5-base from ports:
> 
> # 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 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.
> 

If you update and rebuild toolchain(well, gas is enought), the problem
goes away. It did for me. Sparc64/FAQ tells how to do it.

	Andrey