Re: Successfull build gcc 3.0.4

[Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:00:56AM +0100, Anders Carlsson wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have successfully "make bootstrap-lean" on SPARC (SS10/RT626): 
> 
> $ config-guess
> sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
> 
> $ gcc -v
> Reading specs from /opt/FSFgcc3/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/3.0.4/specs
> Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/opt/FSFgcc3
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.0.4

Thanks!  I've added this to the GCC 3.0 build status list at
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/buildstat.html.

I'm slightly uncomfortable doing that, though, because of your change to
the specs file that was warned against.

> However, something weird happened. Last fall I bootstrapped gcc 3.0.1 by
> using gcc 2.7.2, and it compiled through all stages without errors. Since 
> I wanted to simplify compiling C++ programs, I added "-R /opt/FSFgcc3/lib" to 
> the link command in the specs file of the installed version, despite
> GCC warnings about doing that.
> 
> Ok. So now I tried to compile 3.0.4 with 3.0.1. It ran through the first two 
> stages, and crashed out with "Error 1" somewhere in stage 3. I was too tired 
> to debug what had happened. Could this be due to the configuration change 
> above, something with mismatching libraries in the stage1/2 xgcc compiler?

I don't know; perhaps someone else will answer this question.

> Oh well. I cleaned out the objdir completely and bootstrapped 3.0.4 again, 
> this time using the ancient 2.7.2 compiler. Voila. Everything ran as it
> should.
> 
> /Anders Carlsson