[erlang-questions] Solaris 10 build issues - R11B-4

[Mikael Pettersson]

Brad Anderson writes:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I'm trying to get OTP R11B-4 to compile on Solaris 10 (x86, 32bit).  I've
 > placed the needed packages on the system so far:
 > gcc 3.4.6
 > openssl-0.9.8e
 > make-3.81
 > and their dependencies...
 > 
 > Also, I received an 'ar' error in ./configure, so I added Solaris binutils to
 > the path.
 > 
 > Any insight would be appreciated.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > Brad
 > 
 > 
 > Here's what I'm getting:
 > 
 > gcc -g -O2
 > -I/export/home/root/installs/erlang/otp_src_R11B-4/erts/i386-pc-solaris2.10
 > -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -DUSE_THREADS  -D_THREAD_SAFE
 > -D_REENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -DHYBRID -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall
 > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -DUSE_THREADS  -D_THREAD_SAFE
 > -D_REENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS  -Ibeam -Isys/unix -Isys/common
 > -Ii386-pc-solaris2.10/opt/hybrid -Ii386-pc-solaris2.10 -Izlib -Ihipe
 > -I../include/internal -I../include/internal/i386-pc-solaris2.10 -c
 > hipe/hipe_x86_glue.S -o obj/i386-pc-solaris2.10/opt/hybrid/hipe_x86_glue.o
 > Assembler:
 >        "/var/tmp//ccdhWGox.s", line 1 : Syntax error
 >        Near line: " .section ".text""
 >        "/var/tmp//ccdhWGox.s", line 8 : Illegal mnemonic

etc

You MUST use the GNU assembler if you want HiPE support on x86.
Sun's x86 assemblers are and have always been broken beyond repair.
That means using a gcc that's been configured to use gas.

If you don't want to install or build a fixed gcc, then you can avoid
this error by doing ./configure --disable-hipe before building OTP.

/Mikael