RE: Unsuccessful build of gcc-2.95.1

["Billinghurst, David (RTD)" <David dot Billinghurst at riotinto dot com dot au>]

I can confirm this for MipsPro cc 7.2 and 7.2.1

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	N8TM@aol.com [SMTP:N8TM@aol.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, 2 September 1999 10:57
> To:	gml4410@ggr.co.uk; gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject:	Re: Unsuccessful build of gcc-2.95.1
> 
> In a message dated 9/1/99 1:16:54 PM EST, gml4410@ggr.co.uk writes:
> 
> >    This is for mips-sgi-irix6.5 (claimed successful).
> >  
> >      The problem is in the configure stage.
> >  
> >      The config/mh-irix6 tries to set "CC = cc -32" (to avoid n32/n64
> ABI
> >  problems).
> The lazy way is to set the environment variable CC='cc -n32' while using 
> MipsPro cc as a bootstrap compiler.  AFAIK this works for MipsPro versions
> 
> since 7.2.  Perhaps it's time to change a default configuration which
> caters 
> for the time before there was a working MipsPro compiler for n32/64.  The 
> shoe probably is on the other foot now and 'cc -o32' may be less reliable.
> 
> Tim
> tprince@computer.org