Specific objective: g++ and SP on all platforms

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.LNX.4.04.9909042134290.4876-100000@trix.dircon.co.uk >you wri
te:
  > I downloaded gcc-2.95.1 (untried on sun), and compiled it for HP-risc-1.1
  > on a risc-2 (I want one binary for the room), which sort of worked, but
  > when I used binutils, I got "illegal asm statement" (approx - from memory).
Without the precise error we can not help you.

  > On HP, the builtin libstdc++ directory was not built, or the gcj dir,
  > so I cannot compile C++ (even for comments and basic types).
  > On Linux these dirs simply fall into place.
Most likely the error you got earlier prevented the compiler from building,
and thus prevented the runtime libraries from building.

As for the problems with "SP", you should probably take that up with the 
SP people.

jeff