Re: problem

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

Perhaps you should document Mach10 so you can look it up on the gcc site.
Mach10 included a port of an obsolete version of gcc to the PowerMAC and
some earlier MAC.  The patches never showed up as part of the "real" gcc.
It was never feasible to do much upgrading of their gcc except to the extent
that it was covered by paid support. Such problems contributed to my
abandonment of MAC platforms, well prior to the time when my employment
would have dictated such a shift.  I would suppose that the linux ports are
the only current viable route for PowerMAC support.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rupert Wood" <me@rupey.net>
To: <GTFSTBK@aol.com>
Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:43 PM
Subject: RE: problem


> Dale wrote:
>
> > I require a working gcc and after downloading it from your site it
> > I am very disappointed in that it must be compiled to install and
> > my problem is my environment lacks a compiler to do this.
>
> You can find links to precompiled GCC binaries on the GCC site:
>
>     http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html
>
> > Since I cannot say exactly what my environment is, since it is a
> > stripped MachTen derivative, several programs are missing that
> > stop me from upgrading or midifying my environment since every
> > time I issue the command './configure' I get the following.
>
> I haven't heard of MachTen, but if you run a copy of the GNU
> config.guess script (in most free software source distributions, or
> available for download from the 'config' directory of a GNU mirror) then
> you'll obtain a 'target triple' that describes your machine. You could
> use that to guess which binary may be suitable (although your output
> fragment suggests PPC and I don't see any PPC binaries on the page).
>
> If it comes to it, you can use another system to cross-compile GCC.
> You'll need a system with working GCC (you could use a free OS such as
> GNU/Linux temporarily on a PC, for example), source for GCC and binutils
> and the contents of /usr/include from your MachTen, plus /lib and
> /usr/lib but not their subdirectories. Then combine the binutils and GCC
> source trees at the top level (untar to the same place or use find and
> cpio to link them) and build them
>
>     --target=<machten triple from config.guess>
>     --with-libs=<path to /lib copy>
>     --with-libs=<path to /usr/lib copy>
>     --with-headers=<path to /usr/include copy>
>     --enable-languages=c
>
> Then make and install that compiler and use it to build a native
> compiler for your machten:
>
>     --build=<build host triple>
>     --host=<machten triple>
>     --target=<machten triple>
>
> I find it easiest to then NFS-mount the build machine from your MachTen
> and 'make install' the native compiler across NFS.
>
> Good luck,
> Rup.
>