Re: Problem while configuring gcc3.2

[Pardis Beikzadeh <pardis at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

Hi,

I'm having a problem while installing gcc3.2. I'm trying to install
gcc3.2 for my installation of cygwin because anything higher than that
won't work if I try to compile mex files for Matlab. Unfortunately
when I try to configure gcc3.2 (before getting to the bootstrap step),
I get an error because no proper cc is found. This is of course
because I uninstalled my gcc3.4 in order to install gcc3.2 from
scratch according to the suggestion in the email below from the gcc
mailing list. Could you please tell me how to solve this problem?
Where can I get an installation of cc that will work with gcc3.2? It
seems like I'm stuck with a chicken and egg problem because it seems
like I need gcc before I can install gcc.

Also 'make bootstrap' doesn't work without running configure, so I'm
not sure what the "recommended way" mentioned in the email below
means.

Thanks in advance,


Pardis Beikzadeh



> Nitin Gupta wrote:
>
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gcc-3.2.2/gcc/intl'
> gcc -c -DIN_GCC -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing prototypes -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -If -I. -I./f -I./config -I./../include f/com.c -o f/com.o
> f/com.c:11061: error: conflicting types for 'ffecom_gfrt_basictype'
> f/com.h:229: error: previous declaration of 'ffecom_gfrt_basictype' was here
> gupta@gupta-fc2 %> gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.4.3
>
> These kinds of problems are unavoidable in general. Gcc-3.4 did not exist when gcc-3.2 was released, so it was impossible to make sure that gcc-3.2 would compile OK with gcc-3.4 when gcc-3.2 was released.
>
> Since we are no longer maintaining gcc-3.2, we aren't going to fix this.
>
> If you build gcc-3.2 the recommended way, e.g. via bootstrap, then you won't run into this problem. The fortran front end will be built by the bootstrapped gcc-3.2 instead of gcc-3.4, and you won't get this error.
>
> If you are building a cross, then you bootstrap a native gcc-3.2 first, and then use the native gcc-3.2 to build the cross gcc-3.2.
> --
> Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support,?http://www.SpecifixInc.com
>
>