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Re: i586-linux-pc -> i386-mingw32 [One man's porting experience]
- To: Brown at sw dot mke dot etn dot com
- Subject: Re: i586-linux-pc -> i386-mingw32 [One man's porting experience]
- From: N8TM at aol dot com
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 10:30:48 EDT
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
In a message dated 7/31/98 8:14:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Brown@sw.mke.etn.com writes:
I attempted to cross-compile egcs (1.0.2 with patches)
> error when it came time to
> compile objc
Some of these problems with the objc build have gone away in the current egcs
snapshot, but some remain with certain combinations of OS/make versions. For
example, on Irix 6.4, configuring with CC = 'cc -n32' works because that
matches the assumption made in the build stages which don't observe the CC
specification. As late as egcs 1.03a, --with-gnu-as fails in objc on hpux1020
because objc wants to build with /bin/as instead of binutils, but that appears
to have been corrected in the snapshots. I note when performing 'make
bootstrap' on NT/cygwin32 using gnu make that some recompilations in objc and
f are being skipped, with messages like 'can't find stage1/xgcc' with sections
shortly after where stage1/xgcc executes successfully. In the end, the build
is successful, although the stage to stage comparisons are bogus where there
wasn't actually a rebuild. It gets worse trying to build on Win95/cygwin32
using the native make, where make (without bootstrap) is clean, but 'make
bootstrap' has errors. So it can happen that a build without bootstrap gives
better results (but I don't ever test objc; I don't care if it works). I
haven't dealt with using linux for cross-compilation, but clearly that is
cleaner than building under cygwin32.
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