g77 fails to compile legal code, make dvi breaks

Craig Burley burley@gnu.org
Fri Jun 5 10:18:00 GMT 1998


>I just installed egcs-1.0.3a from source on an i686 with binutils
>2.9.1.0.4.  The g77s in 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and 1.0.3a all fail on the
>following piece of standard code.  The problem is passed
>subroutine/function call arguments with a declaration like:

I think that's a known bug in egcs-1.0, fixed in egcs-1.1 when it
comes out.  But it's hard to tell without more info.  (I *thought*
that parrticular bug was fixed in egcs-1.0.3a, though?)

>make dvi
>(16 returns required to keep TeX running, three times)
>texi2dvi -I../../gcc/f ../../gcc/f/g77.texi -o f/g77.dvi
>texi2dvi: Unknown or ambiguous option `-I../../gcc/f'.
>texi2dvi: Try `--help' for more information.
>make[1]: *** [f/g77.dvi] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/local/src/egcs-1.0.3a/objdir/gcc'
>
>This is with texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 3.12) 0.8, TeX Version 3.14159 (C
>version 6.1).

Strange that texi2dvi doesn't accept -I.  Guess we should delete
that option?

        tq vm, (burley)



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