Problems installing gmp

[Herve Pages]

Hi Ruben,

I don't know if my problem is related to yours because I'm on a
sparc + Solaris 2.9 system ('gcc -v' shows 'Target: sparc-sun-solaris2.9')
but it looks very similar.
When trying to install gmp 4.2.1 yesterday, 'make check' gave me
a '9 of 9 tests failed' result too with errors due to ld.so.1 complaining
about the wrong format of libgcc_s.so.1.
I spent the rest of my day trying to figure out how to solve this problem
and finally realized that the config.guess script provided with gmp 4.2.1
(and called by the configure script) was guessing a different canonical
system name than the one guessed by the configure script provided with
gcc 4.1.1 for example.

With config.guess from gmp 4.2.1:
  hpages at churchill:/usr/local/src/gmp-4.2.1> ./config.guess
  ultrasparc3-sun-solaris2.9

With config.guess from gcc 4.1.1:
  hpages at churchill:/usr/local/src/gcc-4.1.1> ./config.guess
  sparc-sun-solaris2.9

Configuring gmp with
  ./configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.9
solved the problem.

Cheers,

H.

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