gmp 6.2.0 test failures on sparc64-solaris10

[Marc Glisse]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020, Bruno Haible wrote:

> * The ‘configure’ options you used when building GMP, if any.
>
> No options, just './configure'.
> The environment variable CC is set to 'cc -xarch=v9', as recommended in
> https://gmplib.org/manual/ABI-and-ISA .

?
The manual says to set ABI to 64. configure itself then takes care of 
adding -xarch=v9 as it sees fit.

> $ cc -V
> cc: Sun C 5.8 Patch 121015-07 2009/04/22
> usage: cc [ options] files.  Use 'cc -flags' for details

Not the most interesting compiler to support. Maybe the newest version 
would make sense. But the whole product has been discontinued, they are 
only providing a few patches to paying customers to respect the service 
contracts.

> * The output from running ‘uname -a’.
>
> SunOS ******* 5.10 Generic_150400-17 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220

Solaris 10 is EOL, it only has a few years of extended support left, and 
that's normally for people who cannot upgrade anything, in particular not 
people who compile new versions of GMP.

> $ ./config.guess
> ./config.guess: syntax error at line 284: `(' unexpected
>
> $ ./configfsf.guess
> -bash: ./configfsf.guess: Permission denied

bash ./config.guess
bash ./configfsf.guess

(maybe we should add execute permission to configfsf.guess)

-- 
Marc Glisse