Re: gcc problem

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

thanks to

Jamie Ramone <sancombru@gmail.com>
Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
Truls Becken <truls.becken@gmail.com>
"hns@computer.org" <hns@computer.org>

so far that gave me hints regarding the build of a recent gcc on 
Solaris for GNUstep/Etoile. I am currently using

        cd /usr/src
        gunzip gcc-4.4.1.tar.gz
        gtar xvf gcc-4.4.1.tar
        cd gcc-4.4.1
        mkdir objdir
        cd objdir

        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
	../configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld 
--disable-nls  --disable-libgcj --enable-shared 
--enable-languages=c,c++,objc --libdir=/usr/local/lib  
--with-gmp=/usr/local --with-mpfr=/usr/local
        make

to build the beast, unfortunately still without success. I am now 
getting

...
checking whether /usr/src/gcc-4.4.1/objdir/./gcc/xgcc 
-B/usr/src/gcc-4.4.1/objdir/./gcc/ 
-B/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/bin/ 
-B/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/lib/ -isystem 
/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/include -isystem 
/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/sys-include  -m64 supports -pedantic ... 
yes
checking whether /usr/src/gcc-4.4.1/objdir/./gcc/xgcc 
-B/usr/src/gcc-4.4.1/objdir/./gcc/ 
-B/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/bin/ 
-B/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/lib/ -isystem 
/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/include -isystem 
/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.10/sys-include  -m64 and cc understand -c 
and -o together... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... unknown
configure: error: unknown endianness
presetting ac_cv_c_bigendian=no (or yes) will help
make[1]: *** [configure-target-libiberty] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/gcc-4.4.1/objdir'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I am on Solaris x86 so this will probably be ac_cv_c_bigendian=no, but 
I am not sure how and where to set it. Moreover I am wondering why 
./configure was not able to determine that. I had never such trouble 
with gcc version < 4.0!? Could anyone please recommend me a working gcc 
version for building Etoile ideally including the configu reline? Is 
current Etoile compatible with current gnustep or do I have to download 
an older release of GNUstep to get Etoile working?

Thanks a lot!

Andreas