Subject: Re: Upgrading from 1.5.2 to -current?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/17/2002 10:25:14
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:16:35AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:40:21AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> > At 6:14 PM +0200 2002/04/16, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 	Okay, I just finished updating the sources (I started around Tue, 
> > 16 Apr 2002 20:47:30 +0200, so this process has taken about eight 
> > hours).  Unfortunately, I still have the same problem:
> > 
> > % ./build.sh -D /u/tmp/destdir
> > ===> Bootstrapping nbmake
> > checking for gcc... cc
> > checking for C compiler default output... a.out
>                                             ^^^^^
> This may be the problem. I only tried cross-build from elf systems.

No, this confused me for a while when I saw it first. What this is saying is
that the default filename for output files from the compiler is 'a.out'. In
other words, doing a 'cc file.c' produces a file called 'a.out', whereas
doing 'cc -o file file.c' produces 'file'.

Ian.