[racket] help with building racket on Solaris-Sparc

I will have to investigate further, but as a workaround, you could try
configuring with `--enable-sgc'. That option causes a different garbage
collector to be used as an intermediate step toward building Racket's
normal garbage collector.

At Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:04:38 -0400 (EDT), HP Wei wrote:
> 
> I am stuck during the process of building racket-5.2.1
> on a sparc machine running SunOS 5.10.
> 
> gcc = gnu 4.3.2
> ld  = gnu 2.21
> 
> ----------------------
> 
> The process stops at this directory:
> /path/racket-5.2.1/src/build/racket/gc
> 
> it has mach_dep1.lo,  and mach_dep2.lo
> and tries to do
> ./if_mach SPARC "" ld -r -o mach_dep.lo mach_dep1.lo mach_dep2.lo
> 
> -->  mach_dep1.lo: file not recognized: File format not recognized
> 
> I looked at the file content of mach_dep1.lo and mach_dep2.lo
> Both are ascii text file.
> And mach_dep1.lo leads me to   .libs/mach_dep1.o
> and first few bytes of 'od -c .libs/mach_dep1.o' are
> 
> 177 E L F 001 002  001 ...
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> Is this ld issue ?
> 
> Any suggestion how I can proceed ?
> 
> thanks
> HP
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