On 27 Jun 2001 eeh@netbsd.org wrote:

>
> 		Somewhat entertainingly the sparc64 gcc will not compile perl
> 		with -mcpu=v8, (or v9, sparclet or sparclite), while a sun4m
> 		sparc can. I think I'll just avoid -mcpu on my ultra for now :/
>
> Well, the sparc64 gcc only generates v9 code, so -mcpu=v8 won't work
> at all.  If it's configured correctly to generate 32-bit binaries (and
> not all toolchains can do that) then -32 may have some effect.  But
> what you have basically discovered is that perl is buggy.  Have you tried
> the pkgsrc version of perl?  It should be fixed to build on -current.

	OK - I was confused. I thought -mcpu=ultrasparc should be
	a synonym for -mcpu=v9. It appears not - with -mcpu=ultrasparc
	cc dumps core attempting to compile perl, while with -mcpu=v9
	(which should be a NOP?) all is fine.

	This was all with the pkgsrc perl..

	thanks!

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