mips-sgi-irix5.2

[Jean-Marc Nuzillard]

Dear gcc people,

I wrote recently about my failure to compile gcc for mips-sgi-irix5.2

I got the folling answer from Alexandre Oliva:

IIRC, Jim Wilson once told me some old version of SGI's C compiler
would mis-compile stage1 in a way that would cause some optimizations
to be missed, and then stage2 would end up different from stage3, that
would catch up on the optimizations.  Once you get a compare failure,
try `make bootstrap2' again, so that stage3 is used as stage2, a new
stage3 is built and compared with it.

I tried that but it failed.
The problem is may be that I had no GNU tools installed.


I installed successfully bison-1.28 and texinfo-4.0
but gperf-2.7 failed because c++ is unavailable (this is what I try to
build !)

May be more important is that trying to install binutils-2.10, I was warned
that mips-sgi-irix5.2 is not supported by ld and gprof.

Is there a way to make these things working ?

Sincerely yours,


Dr. Jean-Marc Nuzillard
Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie
UMR 6013
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France

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