What binutils version is compatible with gcc 3.3 ?

["Mark D. Baushke" <mdb at gnu dot org>]

Hi Folks,

I have tried a number of different combinations in building a
mipsisa32-elf cross compiler.

I was trying to build a merged newlib 1.11.0 + binutils 2.13.2.1 +
gcc-3.3 tree and it seems that there is a fair amount of drift between
the two libiberty versions. This results in not being able to build
the entire tree for one dependency on libiberty or another.

Note: I would like to use 'released' versions of each of newlib,
binutils, and gcc, so I was wondering when you think binutils 2.14 might
be released?

(Also, has the choice been made yet about where to build the c++filt
program?)

I figured that if binutils 2.13.2.1 was not ready, I should try the
latest binutils from cvs. However, the top-of-tree binutils seems to
give problems when merged with gcc 3.3.

Here is what I have tried to do:

mkdir newlib
cd newlib
cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src checkout \
    -r newlib-1_11_0 newlib
cd ..
mkdir binutils
cd binutils
cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src checkout \
    -r binutils-2_14-branch binutils
cd ..
mkdir gcc
cd gcc
cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcc checkout \
    -r gcc_3_3_release gcc
cd ..
rm -fr combined
cd newlib/src
find . -print | cpio -pdlm ../../combined
cd ../..
cd binutils/src
find . -print | cpio -pdlmu ../../combined
cd ../..
cd gcc/gcc
find . -print | cpio -pdlmu ../../combined
cd ../..
mkdir obj
cd obj
../combined/configure --target=mipsisa32-elf
gmake

This make will fail due to an undefined reference to lrealpath() when
ld/ld-new is being linked.

When I attempted to swap the order of binutils and gcc in the creation
of the combined directory, then things fail in a different place. In
this case, it is in libgloss while trying to build cygmon.o

../../../../combined/libgloss/mips/cygmon.c:63:18: missing terminating " character
../../../../combined/libgloss/mips/cygmon.c: In function `sysCall':
../../../../combined/libgloss/mips/cygmon.c:64: error: parse error before "move"
../../../../combined/libgloss/mips/cygmon.c:70:69: missing terminating " character
gmake[2]: *** [cygmon.o] Error 1

It may be that I am just using the wrong version of binutils in
conjunction with gcc 3.3, if so, could you let me know what version
I should be using?

	Thank you,
	-- Mark