Re: building slrn on sparc

[Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>]

> In fact, this behavior comes from a desire to do the right thing
> when building and bootstrapping gcc.  GCC's bootstrap process expects
> that if the build/host system is sparc64-* that the system compiler,
> as well as the GCC binary produced by the gcc build itself, will both
> produce 64-bit executables by default.  If this is not the case, the
> GCC bootstrap will flat out fail.

I'm pretty sure that when I bootstrapped gcc 3.3 last year, uname was
still returning 'sparc', and everything behaved exactly the way I wanted
it to.