Re: build failures on Solaris

[Dagobert Michelsen via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Dagobert Michelsen <dam () opencsw org>
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> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 12:35:59 +0200
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> Hi Guy,
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> Am 03.08.2021 um 09:26 schrieb Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>:
> > On Aug 3, 2021, at 12:07 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam () opencsw org> wrote:
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> > > The /64 suffix in bin/ and lib/ is a symlink to the respective architecture
> > > and simplifies cross-platform build between Sparc and x86.
> >
> > For whatever reason, /usr/bin/64 isn't present on my Solaris 11.3 (x86-64) VM:
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> >       solaris11$ ls /usr/bin/64
> >       /usr/bin/64: No such file or directory
> >       solaris11$ uname -a
> >       SunOS solaris11 5.11 11.3 i86pc i386 i86pc
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> > The same is true of the directory containing the installed-from-IPS gcc:
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> >       solaris11$ which gcc
> >       /usr/ccs/bin/gcc
> >       solaris11$ ls /usr/ccs/bin/64
> >       /usr/ccs/bin/64: No such file or directory
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> > and Sun/Oracle C:
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> >       solaris11$ which cc
> >       /opt/developerstudio12.5/bin/cc
> >       solaris11$ ls /opt/developerstudio12.5/bin/64/cc
> >       /opt/developerstudio12.5/bin/64/cc: No such file or directory
> >
> > Sun/Oracle don't appear to have made as vigorous an effort to make this work as OpenCSW have.
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> The reason is probably that it is usually not important if you use the 32 or 64 bit
> binary - you just want the one that is suitable which was historically done by
> hardlinking the name to isaexec searching to ISAs from most to least optimal
> or linker ISA features nowadays. This is obviously not the case for *-config
> where you want exactly 32 or 64 bit depending on your build ISA. To make things
> worse Solaris 11 has a mixture of 32 and 64 bit binaries in /bin, but again which
> most of the time does not make a difference.
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> Best regards
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>   — Dago
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