Subject: Re: sunpro and -xarch=v9 on Solaris 10
To: None <segv@netctl.net>
From: None <segv@netctl.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/04/2005 22:23:38
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:51:49 +0000
segv@netctl.net wrote:

> I've just found out that you need to set the following variable in your
> mk.conf to build 64-bit binaries
> 
> ABI=64
> 
> It is used by mk/compiler/sunpro.mk file, that has the following line
> 
> _COMPILER_ABI_FLAG.64=  -xtarget=ultra -xarch=v9

pkgsrc developers, any chance to add a note about ABI variable to
bootstrap/README.Solaris file? I think without it, many packages will fail to
compile into 64-bit binaries.