failure to build erlang on sparcv9 Solaris 10 with the system gcc

build output

cd lib && \
  ERL_TOP=/var/tmp/pkgbuild-0/erlang/sparcv9/erlang-otp-73b4221 PATH=/var/tmp/pkgbuild-0/erlang/sparcv9/erlang-otp-73b4221/bootstrap/bin:${PATH} \
        make opt SECONDARY_BOOTSTRAP=true
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/pkgbuild-0/erlang/sparcv9/erlang-otp-73b4221/lib'
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/pkgbuild-0/erlang/sparcv9/erlang-otp-73b4221/lib/hipe'
=== Entering application hipe
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/pkgbuild-0/erlang/sparcv9/erlang-otp-73b4221/lib/hipe/misc'
erlc -W  +debug_info +warn_exported_vars +warn_missing_spec +warn_untyped_record -o../ebin hipe_consttab.erl
make[3]: *** [../ebin/hipe_consttab.beam] Bus Error (core dumped)
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/pkgbuild-0/erlang/sparcv9/erlang-otp-73b4221/lib/hipe/misc'

I've opened a thread on stackoverflow for this, complete with the solution:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6561133/why-does-my-erlang-build-fail-with-a-core-dump-on-solaris-sparc/