[asterisk-users] [Solved] Error compiling Asterisk 1.8.3 on Sun SPARC x64 w/Debian Squeeze

[RR]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:48 PM, RR <ranjtech at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Stuart Longland <redhatter at gentoo.org>wrote:
>
>> On 03/08/11 09:21, RR wrote:
>> > Hello Stuart
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Stuart Longland <redhatter at gentoo.org
>> > <mailto:redhatter at gentoo.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Even if it doesn't help fix the problem, you probably will want to
>> use
>> >     at least -mcpu=v9 (educated guess looking at the gcc manpage) if
>> it's an
>> >     UltraSPARC as that will give you some of these instructions.
>>  Asterisk
>> >     strikes me as an application that'd make fairly hefty use of things
>> like
>> >     integer multiplication.
>> >
>> > Ok, where would I put this -mcpu=v9 in the configure line?
>> >
>> > I tried ./configure CFLAGS="-mcpu=v9"?
>>
>> Normally it's specified in the environment; so maybe CFLAGS="-mcpu=v9"
>> ./configure…
>>
>>
> I tried both ways, my way and yours i.e. setting them as env variables and
> it still gets that error. Also found some other stuff on the net related to
> that in different context but none of those work for me. Some where in some
> old debian archives there's some mention of the Boost libraries and the flag
> that must be used on Sparc with Boost libraries. Although it also says that
> it was fixed in some later release which was back in 2008, so am assuming
> that fix is still in place in Squeeze.
>
>
>> > BTW, at the end of the configure script, it's already detecting the host
>> > cpu as sparc64. If that helps. Maybe -march needs to be specified
>> > somewhere?
>>
>> Maybe, the fact that it detected 'sparc64' probably is more a case of
>> telling the build system that the system is big-endian, requires that
>> data structures be 64-bit aligned, etc.  Use of features that weren't in
>> the first SPARC is an optional extra.
>
>
> Ok, if that doesn't help then another interesting insight is that in
> config.log, it says that the response to 'arch' and 'arch -k' commands is
> 'unknown'. Don't know if that helps.
>
>
>> >     Another place to ask might be the Debian-SPARC mailing list?
>> >
>> > haha funny, I was just writing an email to that list when your email hit
>> > my inbox :)
>>
>> Telepathy; seems we think alike. :-D  Must be due to me being from the
>> same part of the world.
>>
>>
> Possibly :) although I have found that there's not a lot of activity in
> that list on a regular basis. So not sure if my problem will get resolved
> there or not :(
>

Ok, so this is solved! The culprit was the the line "mcpu=v8" in the
Makefile. Comment that out, and it makes properly.
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