Re: porting EGCS to the Cray T3E

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <9807141146.ZM5055@vapor.acl.lanl.gov>you write:

  > OK.  As far as I can tell, the egcs build instructions do not make any sort of
  > distinction like this between "host" and "target".  The instructions imply that
  > these are the same thing.  Nevertheless, I tried the suggestion I received of
  > setting the host to "alpha-cray-unicosmk" to see if that works.  It does not.
No, look at configure.html



To configure egcs: 


     % mkdir objdir 
     % cd objdir 
     % srcdir/configure [target] [options] 

target specification 

     egcs has code to correctly determine the correct value for target for nearly all native
     systems. Therefore, we highly recommend you not provide a configure target when
     configuring a native compiler. 
     target must be specified when configuring a cross compiler; examples of valid targets
     would be i960-rtems, m68k-coff, sh-elf, etc. 


  >  I get the exact same behavior as before.  It works for a while, then says
  > 
  > Configuration alpha-cray-unicosmk not supported
This isn't going to help your problem -- there is no support for cray
targets.  As long as you continue to try and build for a cray target
this is going to fail.
jeff