Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ2: building gcc

["Jon Rosenberg" <jbr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been trying to buyild gcc 2.95.2 for my Raq3, with no success.  There
are so many compile options and it takes so long to compile on such a slow
machine, but I'm going to keep trying.  If anyone has any ideas or has done
this...let me know, please!

jon


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Smith" <dyls@xxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] RaQ2: building gcc


> All,
>
> I asked a couple of weeks ago about building gcc 2.95.2 on a RaQ2 (I
needed
> to install tcl/tk, (and a friend needed to install a web application
written
> in C++ which is not supported well by gcc2.7), and gcc 2.7 segfaults
whilst
> building tcl).
> Nobody replied, but we have had success, and in case anyone needs a newer
> gcc for a RaQ2, I'd like to say we have one now.
> Needless to say, Sun were about as useful as a chocolate fireguard when I
> asked them about it via the official Cobalt support route. But never mind
> that.
>
> Here's what we found out whilst building it:
> * Apparently 2.95.2 will not build on mips/linux at all unless you do some
> unspecified tweaking to some of the header files.
> * My friend Serguei Narojnyi instead tried for gcc 2.97 (a CVS snapshot,
> erk!) and he had the patience required to build it. It took 3 goes in the
> end. All the credit must go to him ;-) The compiler seems to work fine.
>
> The problems he encountered whilst building it were:
> - on a couple of the files there is a function >100K in size! Relative
jumps
> on a Mips cannot be bigger than 16 bits, so 'as' died whilst trying to
build
> the result. Compiling those two files with -O2 brought the size down
enough
> so they would build.
> - javalib seems to be in the gcc core now, which sucks if you haven't
built
> and don't want to build gjc, but this may just be because it's a CVS
> snapshot. I hope ;-)
>
> gcc 2.97 does seem to work just fine though - I could build tcl/tk with it
> and it didn't segfault.
>
> If anyone needs gcc > 2.7 on a RaQ2, drop me an email. I'm in the process
of
> making a monster tarball of the results. Don't expect an rpm!
>
> --
> Dylan Smith, Houston TX.
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