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Re: Problem while configuring gcc3.2
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Kai Ruottu <kai.ruottu@wippies.com> wrote:
> Jie Zhang wrote:
>>
>> On 12/28/2009 12:59 PM, Pardis Beikzadeh wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Also 'make bootstrap' doesn't work without running configure, so I'm
>>> not sure what the "recommended way" mentioned in the email below
>>> means.
>>>
>> The bootstrap in Jim's reply means, I think, building a minimal (only C
>> front-end) gcc-3.2 first using gcc-3.4. Then you can use the minimal gcc-3.2
>> to build a full gcc-3.2.
>>
>>
> Maybe installing a gcc-3.3 based Cygwin-release like the '1.6.6' and then
> building gcc-3.2 with it would succeed immediately :
>
> http://www.filewatcher.com/m/cygwin-1.6.6.zip.496537660.0.0.html
>
> Or simply finding a gcc-3.2-based Cygwin-release from the net....
>
> It can also be possible that gcc-3.2 expects some old Cygwin-runtime as the
> binutils & C-library components, trying to get gcc-3.2 to work
> with uptodate binutils and Cygwin-runtime may simply be impossible or very
> hard :(
>
>
Thanks for the advice. After reading your suggestion I tried to find
an older installation of Cygwin. I found one but I have yet to try it
and see if in fact gcc3.2 does solve my other problems.
Cheers,
Pardis Beikzadeh