Re: Crosstool-0.24 problems on Solaris

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Addison Laurent wrote:
> > > ... gcc-3.2.3-glibc-2.3.2/build-glibc/csu/version-info.h:8: too many decimal points in floating constant
> > > make[2]: ***
> >
> > What's in version-info.h?
>
> "Compiled on a SunOS 5.8 system on 2003-11-13.
> "
> "Available extensions:
> "
> GNU libio by Per Bothner
>         rypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
> linuxthreads-0.10 by Xavier Leroy
> BIND-8.2.3-T5B
> libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc
> NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk

That's interesting.  The BIND-8.2.3-T5B, along with all
the other lines, should have been in quotes.  Here's how it looks on my machine:

"Compiled on a Linux 2.4.21 system on 2003-11-08.\n"
"Available extensions:\n"
"       GNU libio by Per Bothner\n"
"       crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others\n"
"       linuxthreads-0.10 by Xavier Leroy\n"
"       BIND-8.2.3-T5B\n"
"       libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc\n"
"       NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk\n"
"       software FPU emulation by Richard Henderson, Jakub Jelinek and others\n"

And here's the little bit of csu/Makefile that generates that:

           echo "\"Available extensions:\\n\"";                 \
           sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/^[[:space:]]*/  /'              \
               -e 's/\(^.*$$\)/\"\1\\n\"/' $$files;             \

Whew, that's hard to read!  That last -e is the one that puts quotes on.
And hey presto, when I try that little sed command on Solaris,
it doesn't add the quotes!  Turs out Solaris 5.8's sed doesn't
like the ^ and $ to be inside the ().  I guess we found ourselves a
little bug!  And whaddaya know, it's been fixed in CVS, see
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/csu/Makefile.diff?r1=1.70&r2=1.71&cvsroot=glibc

So you're not imagining things; it really was broken on Solaris!
Probably installing gnu sed made the problem vanish for you.
- Dan


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