Re: What is the future of gcc-2.95.3-prerelease ?

["Tim Prince" <tprince at computer dot org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Korn" <dkorn@pixelpower.com>
To: <tprinceusa@mindspring.com>
Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 4:53 AM
Subject: RE: What is the future of gcc-2.95.3-prerelease ?


> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: tprinceusa@mindspring.com [mailto:tprinceusa@mindspring.com]
> >Sent: 15 February 2001 21:56
>
> >[SNIP!]  However, I haven't been able to
> >build 2.95.3 in cygwin, while 2.97 is doing well there.
>
>   I've had no problems building 2.95.3 cross compilers under cygwin.  What
> goes wrong for you?  Is it a bootstrap problem?
>
>         DaveK
Thanks for the reminder.  With the current cygwin1-20010213.dll, remembering
how 2.95 has to be treated as a cross compiler build even when host and
target are the same, I got gcc-2.95.3 to bootstrap.  I got an excellent g77
out of it by hacking around the obstacles in that version of libf2c (it
doesn't find include files in the standard places under cygwin, and
[de]time_.c are consistent only with cygwin-b20, a version which no one
runs).  It's probably better simply to substitute the current libf2c, which
is no different except for bug fixes.  I think it would be too much work to
find a way to have satisfactory g++ and g77 from the same build.  The g++ I
built passed about 50% of the libio and libstdc++ tests; not good enough.