Re: fix build problem on SunOS 4.1.4

["Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>]

 > From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@stanford.edu>
 > 
 > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:55:36PM +0100, Toon Moene wrote:
 > > Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
 > > 
 > > > Curious, were there any other problems?  E.g. when testing with
 > > > bootstrapping with gcc -traditional on solaris I have horrible
 > > > problems building the fortran docs.  (The fortran doc creation use
 > > > some gimicky C tricks making use lots of ANSI'isms.  They are now
 > > > always built regardless of the LANGUAGES variable which torpedoes
 > > > stage1 K&R compilers.)
 > > 
 > > Sigh - the stuff in the f/ directory was never written with the prospect
 > > in mind that it would have to conform to K&R I syntax / semantics ...
 > 
 > Couldn't we just change the rule so it uses the just-built C compiler?
 > In a cross compilation you'd have to have an ANSI compiler, but you
 > need that anyway.
 > zw

Probably.  I take it you mean that we would use xgcc in native but
HOST_CC otherwise?  Do you have a suggestion on how to switch on that
and achieve it?

Also, I don't recall the reason an ANSI compiler is required for cross
compilation.  What was that again?

		Thanks,
		--Kaveh
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