From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-07-10T01:39:22+09:00
Subject: build problems with 1.8, solaris and sparc options

Hi all,

Solaris 9
gcc 3.2.2
Ruby 1.8 (2003-07-07)
ld: Software Generation Utilities - Solaris Link Editors: 5.9-1.343

 >uname -a
SunOS sp5wd-b1 5.9 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100

I decided to tinker with a couple of gcc options when building Ruby 1.8. 
  I used this as my $CFLAGS:

-g -O2 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc

Things seemed to go ok during make until it got to bigdecimal.c

...
compiling bigdecimal
gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -I. -I/usr/local/src/ruby 
-I/usr/local/src/ruby -I/usr/local/src/ruby/ext/bigdecimal -c bigdecimal.c
gcc -Wl,-G  -L"/usr/local/src/ruby" -L"/opt/lib" -o bigdecimal.so 
bigdecimal.o  -ldl -lcrypt -lm  -lc
ld: fatal: file bigdecimal.o: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to bigdecimal.so
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `bigdecimal.so'
Current working directory /usr/local/src/ruby/ext/bigdecimal
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'

Any ideas?

Regards,

Dan