Building EGCS from scratch

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 19970908234701.21678@calvin.moonglade.com >you write:
  > For example, it looks like there is a version of the standard C++ library
  > that is built.  However, when I'm doing this (on Linux, libc5, latest
  > everything), I get the following error while building libiostream.a:
  > 
  > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `stdio.list', needed by `libiostream.a'.
This is a bug in the linux config files in libio.  Jim posted a patch for
this problem a day or two ago.

  > It seems that EGCS is sorely missing documentation on what needs to be built
  > for <foo> OS, and in what order.  I've been on the mailing list for a few
  > weeks now, and nothing of the sort has showed up in my mailbox.
You can try the "bootstrap" target if you pick up the makefile fragment I
posted to the list a few days ago.

Or


configure  --srcdir=whereever
cd gcc
make bootstrap
make compare
cd ..
make

Jeff