On 20090111.1151+0100, Thomas Jourdan <tjourdan@neuf.fr> wrote:

  I'm still working on the solaris port an I have the same issue here.
  While trying to build the i686-nptl-linux-gnu toolchain under
  OpenSolaris, the problems appears during the make install rule of the
  libc function.

  The problem is that solaris tries to execute ld-linux.so.2, which is an
  elf 32 bits dyn lib, and it fails with a memory fault, not a "cannot
  execute binary file". Hence the build stops on this error.

And on 20090111.1339+0100, he replied with:

  After digging a little, the problem comes from the
  glibc-2.6.1/posix/Makefile. It has been solved starting from glibc 2.7
  so I extracted a patch for glibc 2.6.1.

--- glibc-2.6.1/posix/Makefile	2007-04-04 01:28:20.000000000 +0200
+++ glibc-2.7/posix/Makefile	2007-09-12 01:57:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 endif
 others		:= getconf
 install-bin	:= getconf
-install-others	:= $(inst_libexecdir)/getconf
+install-others-programs	:= $(inst_libexecdir)/getconf
 
 before-compile	:= testcases.h ptestcases.h
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 	     tst-rxspencer-mem tst-rxspencer.mtrace tst-getconf.out \
 	     tst-pcre-mem tst-pcre.mtrace tst-boost-mem tst-boost.mtrace \
 	     bug-ga2.mtrace bug-ga2-mem bug-glob2.mtrace bug-glob2-mem \
-	     tst-vfork3-mem tst-vfork3.mtrace
+	     tst-vfork3-mem tst-vfork3.mtrace getconf.speclist
 
 include ../Rules
 
@@ -291,12 +291,20 @@
 $(objpfx)bug-glob2-mem: $(objpfx)bug-glob2.out
 	$(common-objpfx)malloc/mtrace $(objpfx)bug-glob2.mtrace > $@
 
-$(inst_libexecdir)/getconf: $(objpfx)getconf FORCE
+$(inst_libexecdir)/getconf: $(inst_bindir)/getconf \
+			    $(objpfx)getconf.speclist FORCE
 	$(addprefix $(..)./scripts/mkinstalldirs ,\
 		    $(filter-out $(wildcard $@),$@))
-	for spec in `LC_ALL=C GETCONF_DIR=/dev/null \
-		     $(run-program-prefix) $< \
-		     _POSIX_V6_WIDTH_RESTRICTED_ENVS`; do \
-		$(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $< $@/$$spec.new; \
-		mv -f $@/$$spec.new $@/$$spec; \
-	done
+	while read spec; do \
+	  ln -f $< $@/$$spec.new || $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $< $@/$$spec.new; \
+	  mv -f $@/$$spec.new $@/$$spec; \
+	done < $(objpfx)getconf.speclist
+
+$(objpfx)getconf.speclist: $(objpfx)getconf
+ifeq (no,$(cross-compiling))
+	LC_ALL=C GETCONF_DIR=/dev/null \
+	$(run-program-prefix) $< _POSIX_V6_WIDTH_RESTRICTED_ENVS > $@.new
+else
+	> $@.new
+endif
+	mv -f $@.new $@