[erlang-questions] Building 64-bit Erlang on Solaris 11

[Mikael Pettersson]

Joel Reymont writes:
 > 
 > On Oct 2, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > 
 > > I believe the problem is that the otp build system probably
 > > overrides CFLAGS, which would cancel any user setting of CFLAGS.
 > > What I and others typically do for 64-bit builds is to set
 > > CC='gcc -m64' or to point CC to a script that always adds -m64.
 > 
 > 
 > That doesn't work too well...
 > 
 > checking for a compiler that handles jumptables... /home/admin/ 
 > otp_src_R12B-4/erts/configure: line 20569: test: too many arguments
 > /home/admin/otp_src_R12B-4/erts/configure: line 20587: test: too many  
 > arguments
 > gcc -m64
 > /home/admin/otp_src_R12B-4/erts/configure: line 20660: test: too many  
 > arguments
 > checking for static ZLib to be used by SSL in standard locations... no

Maybe I misremembered the CC='gcc -m64' ./configure approach,
it does work in other projects. The auxiliary script approach
is known to work in Erlang however:

cat > /tmp/gcc64
#!/bin/sh
exec gcc -m64 "$@"
^D
chmod +x /tmp/gcc64
CC=/tmp/gcc64 ./configure
make