libffi related bootstrap failure on sparc-sun-solaris2.8

Tue Apr 2 06:32:00 GMT 2002

I had a successful bootstrap on sparc-sun-solaris2.8, but am (again)
seeing the following failure today:
 checking size of double... 8
 checking size of long double... 16
 checking size of void *... 8
 checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... cross-compiling... unknown
 checking to probe for byte ordering... guessing bigendian ... unknown
 configure: error: unknown endianess - sorry
 gmake[1]: *** [configure-target-libffi] Error 1
 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/files/pfeifer/OBJ-0402-1049'
 gmake: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
The only changes that have been applied in the meantime are
 2002年04月01日 Loren J. Rittle <ljrittle@acm.org>
 * configure.in: Enable alpha*-*-freebsd*.
 * configure: Rebuilt.
 2002年03月30日 Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>
 * configure.in: Enable i*86-*-netbsdelf*.
 * configure: Rebuilt.
 2002年03月29日 David Billinghurst <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com>
 PR other/2620
 * src/mips/n32.s: Delete
 * src/mips/o32.s: Delete
but I don't see how any of these three could actually have caused this.
(Krister's patch which was installed by Bryce, looks a bit larger, but
as far as I could see, this was just do to autoconf behaving very stupid
wrt line numbers.)
Gerald