[klibc] (fwd) Bug#440721: FTBFS on sparc while linking usr/klibc/libc.so

[H. Peter Anvin]

maximilian attems wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Hmm... wonder if this means libgcc is no longer usable on sparc.  If so, we 
>> may have to do the internal libgcc thing for sparcd as well.
>>
>> Is this sparc32 or -64?
> 
> it's on sparc32 afais on the build log.
> 
> i tried to kick the only usage of _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
> in the unused PIC_PROLOGUE defines inside of
> usr/include/arch/sparc/machine/asm.h, but had no result on build failure.
> http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/2-sparc-gcc42.patch
> 

Well, the error you reported was from inside libgcc.  It probably means 
we should use your own libgcc code, not the "real" libgcc... we already 
do this on a number of platforms.

	-hpa