gcc 2.95

[Barry Hancock <baz dot 12kingfisher at virgin dot net>]

Sir,

I am experiencing real difficulties in compiling the above version of the 
compiler as a cross compiler for the m68k.

I am following the guidelines as described in www.sthoward.com/CrossGCC as 
recommended in one of the gcc readme files, but am struggling to get it to 
compile without error.

In following the example, gcc compiles up to a point, then it errors with the 
following message :-
"
as: unrecognised option: -c68020
"

I presume a makefile or whatever should be -mc68020, but is missing the m, 
however, I cannot find it in any file.

This is not the only example - I have tried m68k-unknown-elf, m68k-aout, 
m68k-elf, m68k-gnu-elf, and so on, all with various errors.

I am wondering - is this a lost cause ? Is the m68k tree out of date or 
something ?

I am attempting to build from the sources supplied with Mandrake Linux 8.2 on 
a Red Hat Linux 6.2 system which uses egcs 2.91 on a PC.

Generally, the binary utilities build, with one or two exceptions (related to 
BFD), but gcc does not want to know.

Please save my sanity.

Sincerely

Barry Hancock