gcc-4.6.0 breaks

[Bryan Hundven]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Bill Cunningham <billcun@suddenlink.net> wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>>
>>> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>    My gcc-4.6.0 compilation after compiling for quite some time
>>>>> decided to
>>>>> break with an error to stderr of something like not recognized
>>>>> object files.
>>>>> I am compiling with gcc-3.3.6. This can sure be nerve racking. Does
>>>>> anyone know what this means?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How would anyone even begin to help with this email content ?
>>>>
>>>> Okay, so let's see, so you're running Debian Linux on a DEC alpha
>>>> and you are trying to bootstrap GCC 4.6.0 while using GCC 3.3.6 with
>>>> binutils maybe maybe not and your configure line was black magic
>>>> while facing east with a dead cat under a rising moon ?
>>>>
>>>> My guess is that you need to face west.
>>>>
>>>> Try again with some content please !
>>>
>>>    I didn't get a log of stderr. I wish I had it turned on now. I'm
>>> using an old RH 9 for the i686 and binutils-2.21 along with
>>> gcc-3.3.6. I have have
>>> gmp mpfc and mpc all installed and I am using make-3.82. I was rather
>>> surprised when it broke. If I try again I will get a stderr log.
>>>
>>
>> Can you just login remotely with an xterm or better yet fire up screen
>> with session logging and then go to a fresh clean directory. Then
>> let's try a boot strap again and this time everything gets logged.
>>
>> wdyt ?
>
>   Nope. Don't have X on my system. Never installed it and removed what few
> directories were left. I have xfree86 binaries but they are kind of old and
> want an even newer glibc than I have I believe. But I can still get errors
> logged with the shell.

$ apt-get install screen

$ screen -L

$ build your toolchain

$ exit

post screenlog.0

> Bill
>
>

-Bryan