Re: mips-sgi-irix5.2

["Koundinya.K" <kk at ddeorg dot soft dot net>]

Hello ,
	Why don't you take a look at http://freeware.sgi.com where pre-built 
binaries of gcc are available. You will have to search for gcc. As far as I 
know, there was once gcc2.8.1 available.

Know I think even gcc2.95.2 is also made available as I can see from

http://toolbox.sgi.com/TasteOfDT/public/freeware/Dist/fw_gcc-2.95.2.tardist

Why not try installing this and use it as a boostrap compiler for compiling 
the latest gcc. Building gcc for mips targets have always for me have been 
quite an adventure.

Koundinya


-> Dear gcc people,
-> 
-> I wrote recently about my failure to compile gcc for mips-sgi-irix5.2
-> 
-> I got the folling answer from Alexandre Oliva:
-> 
-> IIRC, Jim Wilson once told me some old version of SGI's C compiler
-> would mis-compile stage1 in a way that would cause some optimizations
-> to be missed, and then stage2 would end up different from stage3, that
-> would catch up on the optimizations.  Once you get a compare failure,
-> try `make bootstrap2' again, so that stage3 is used as stage2, a new
-> stage3 is built and compared with it.
-> 
-> I tried that but it failed.
-> The problem is may be that I had no GNU tools installed.
-> 
-> 
-> I installed successfully bison-1.28 and texinfo-4.0
-> but gperf-2.7 failed because c++ is unavailable (this is what I try to
-> build !)
-> 
-> May be more important is that trying to install binutils-2.10, I was warned
-> that mips-sgi-irix5.2 is not supported by ld and gprof.
-> 
-> Is there a way to make these things working ?
-> 
-> Sincerely yours,
-> 
-> 
-> Dr. Jean-Marc Nuzillard
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