[Bug bootstrap/12889] Fatal error while compiling on Compaq Tru64 UNIX

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------- Additional Comments From gnat-dev at buzco dot nyct dot net  2003-11-07 19:37 -------
Subject: Re:  Fatal while compiling on Tru64

On 03-11-03 18:53:06, vlako at bart dot nl wrote:

| http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12889

| Trying to compile gcc 3.3.2 source on a Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1 (Rev. 732)
| (ALPHA MACHINE) with the Compaq C V6.3-025 on Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1 (Rev.
| 732) compiler (Compiler Driver V6.3-026 (sys) cc Driver).

| After doing a successfull configure, and while doing the make bootstrap, the
| following error occured:

| case "compare" in compare | compare-lean ) stage=2 ;; * ) stage=`echo compare
| | sed -e 's,^compare\([0-9][0-9]*\).*,\1,'` ;; esac;	if [ -f .bad_compare ];
| then	echo "Bootstrap comparison failure!";  cat .bad_compare;  exit 1;  else
| case "compare" in  *-lean ) rm -rf stage$stage ;;  *) ;;  esac; true;  fi
| Bootstrap comparison failure!
| fix-header.o differs
| *** Exit 1
| Stop.
| *** Exit 1
| Stop.

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Have you tried doing a 4-stage bootstrap? I once had a similar problem
of one file not comparing after stage 3 and one more stage fixed it.

I think this has something to do w/ generated files doing something
funny when bootstrapping from certain compilers.

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