Bug 24664

Summary:	gcc-3.2.3 cannot compile 64 bit binaries (-m64)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alvaro Figueroa (RETIRED) <fede2>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Sparc Porters <sparc>
Status:	VERIFIED REMIND
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Sparc
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alvaro Figueroa (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-17 07:13:08 UTC

I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.0, but it complains that I have an old compiler (because I egcs64 installed so that I can compile "old" kernels).

I've checked on arch/sparc64/Makefile to see how it detects my old compiler and I see that on one place it tries to use gcc or sparc64-linux-gcc (witch is a link to the egcs compiler). The way it makes that choice, is by executing "gcc -m64 -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null" to see if gcc has support for building 64 bits binaries, and here is my complain :).

Other distributions (e.g. debian unstable) have had several gcc version for the sparc64 arquitecture with 64 bit compiling enabled. Could this be added to gentoo's gcc?

Comment 1 Joe Kallar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-17 08:41:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24631 ***

Comment 2 Alvaro Figueroa (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-17 13:43:28 UTC

Weird... I really don't have a clue how this dup got here.

Comment 3 Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-17 07:41:34 UTC

Closing