Re: Error whilst compiling egcs-core-19990314.tar.gz

[Manfred Hollstein <manfred at s-direktnet dot de>]

On nil, 16 March 1999, 11:42:40, yusufg@huge.net wrote:

 > Hi, I downloaded egcs-core-19990314.tar.gz from the ftp server and 
 > configured it via the following command
 > 
 > ../egcs-19990314/configure --prefix=/usr/local/site/egsnap \
 > --enable-languages=c
 > 
 > On doing a make bootstrap, I get
 > 
 > ln cccp cpp
 > sed: can't read cp/Makefile: No such file or directory
 > gmake[2]: *** [../../egcs-19990314/gcc/cp/parse.c] Error 2
 > gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/egobj/gcc'
 > gmake[1]: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/egobj/gcc'
 > gmake: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

I don't know, if this stuff is supposed to work if the languages' directories
are actually missing.  I have to admit, I'm always using a complete tree.

 > 
 > I tried to configure it via the following command line
 > ../egcs-19990314/configure --prefix=/usr/local/site/egsnap \
 > --disable-languages=c++,CHILL,f77,java,objc
 > 
 > for which I get
 > 
 > onfiguring for a i686-pc-linux-gnu host.
 > Created "Makefile" in /usr/local/src/egobj using "mt-frag"
 > Configuring libiberty...
 > configure: error: languages=c++,objc,CHILL,java,f77: invalid feature name
 > Configure in /usr/local/src/egobj/libiberty failed, exiting.

Yep, --enable-languages=... is not intended to be used in the inverted
form.

 > 
 > 
 > If I bring in the complete snapshot egcs-19990314.tar.gz, It compiles
 > cleanly with the first configure command, 

So, this is answering my question above ...

 > 
 > Is it neccasary to download the snapshot for all languages even though 
 > I just want to try the C compiler and runtime

I'll come up with a fix for it.

 > 
 > Thanks, Yusuf
 > 
 > -- 
 > Yusuf Goolamabbas
 > yusufg@huge.net

Later,
manfred