[OpenIndiana-discuss] compiling qt4 with gcc

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

Hello,

The last few days I tried to compile Qt 4.7.3 (i.e., the latest 

stable version). I wanted to use gcc in order to be able to
compile other things that, to the best of my knowledge, do
not compile with solstudio. I have used 4.5.3 and then 4.6.0
but it failed. However, the instructions in the following page

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/platform-notes-x11.html

are very clear: one needs to use gcc that makes use of GNU ld
and GNU as. So I recompiled gcc 4.6.0 with, among others, the 

following options


--with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/gnu/bin/ld 
--with-gnu-as --with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas  

Next, the resulting compiler was used to successfully compile Qt.
Problem solved!

Now, I believe that if the system is going to include the gcc
compiler (I mean a recent version not the ancient one...),
then this compiler must be compiled so to use GNU ld and GNU as.

A.S.

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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece