RE: Installing GNU GCC 2.6.2

["Bashar Bou-Diab" <bashar at nortelnetworks dot com>]

Jeff, Joe, & Yabuke,

Hi Guys, thanks for your help. Please let me know when you install the new
egcs machine.

Actually, I was able to get gcc-2.6.2 from a ftp server in Japan. But I
failed to install gas-2.3 because of the following error:
./configure		{successful}
make			{Error: sh[4]: 8965 Bus error (coredump)
			 *** Error exit code 138}

Any clues why this happens?

Thanks,
Bashar

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey A Law [mailto:law@cygnus.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 4:27 AM
To: Joe Buck
Cc: Bou-Diab, Bashar [BCNR:7M24:EXCH]; gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing GNU GCC 2.6.2



  In message <199910061726.KAA13288@atrus.synopsys.com>you write:
  > > Could you please give me some directions on how to find and install
GNU G
  > CC
  > > 2.6.2?
  > > I need this older version specificly.
  > 
  > 2.6.2 was the current version of gcc for only about two weeks (it had
  > serious bugs and was replaced by 2.6.3 very quickly).  So I'm kind of
  > amazed that you need it.  However ....
  > 
  > There are many gcc versions available in the directory
  > 
  > ftp://ftp.gnu/org/pub/gnu/gcc/
  > 
  > While gcc-2.6.2 is not available as one tar file, you could probably
  > construct it from patches, e.g. download 2.7.2.1 and apply the patches
  > 
  > gcc-2.6.2-2.6.3.diff.gz
  > gcc-2.6.3-2.7.0.diff.gz
  > gcc-2.7.0-2.7.1.diff.gz
  > gcc-2.7.1-2.7.2.diff.gz
  > gcc-2.7.2-2.7.2.1.diff.gz
  > 
  > using the -R flag (apply patches in reverse).  You're more likely to
  > be able to find gcc-2.6.3 somewhere, as it was in wide use for a long
  > time.  Then you would only have to apply gcc-2.6.2-2.6.3.diff.gz in
  > reverse.  This assumes you know how to work the patch program.  Read
  > the file INSTALL to find out how to build and install it.
BTW, it is quite likely you'll be able to pick up gcc-2.6.2 after
we bring up the new egcs machine this weekend :-)  I haven't looked
explicitly, but we'll have lots of the older gcc releases online
(got to find some way to use those new disks :-)

jeff