Re: GCC 3.0 Status (IA-64)

[Jim Wilson <wilson at cygnus dot com>]

>Jim, how far should a bootstrap get with the current sources, and what
>configuration options are needed to build at least the C compiler?  Are
>there patches available to build dejagnu on IA-64?

The one I tried last night completed without problem.  Last time I tried it
in December it was dying in the libstdc++-v3 build because of a C++ front end
problem.  That problem was fixed 6 days ago as Richard Henderson pointed out.

I am running Red Hat Linux 7.0 here, using a copy I got Dec 7.  I don't need
any special patches or configure options to do the gcc build.  However, I do
have my own /usr/local/bin/gcc that I built from the toolchain at
ftp.cygnus.com:/pub/ia64-linux.  This includes a few gcc patches that aren't
in /usr/bin/gcc.  I'm not sure whether it makes a difference or not, since
most of the patches were for bugs reported by other people, not bugs I ran into
while trying to build gcc.

Dejagnu should just work as far as I know.  I haven't tried building the
dejagnu snapshots on gcc.gnu.org though, as I am using a copy of dejagnu
which is part of the toolchain on ftp.cygnus.com.  You might have trouble
with an out-of-date config.guess in the dejagnu snapshots, but that is trivial
to fix by replacing it with a newer one from gcc.

Jim