gcc for HPUX 10.20

[law@redhat.com]

 In message <20020604025911.B344C2C962@inet1.ywave.com>, Tim Prince writes:
 > On Monday 03 June 2002 12:37, Ferreira, Jason  C. wrote:
 > > I have had no success in trying to find gcc for HPUX 10.20.  The only thin
 > g
 > > I have been able to find is the binary (depot file) for HPUX 11.00 and the
 > > source code for gcc.
 > >
 > > Do you know of any sites that have gcc for HPUX 10.20 or will I have to
 > > rebuild gcc from the source code on the target machine.  If I have to
 > > rebuild on the target machine, then what are some of the
 > > problems/difficulties that you have encountered when doing this?
 > >
 > If you had the hpux full std C compiler installed, gcc would build nearly 
 > "out of the box," requiring only the substitution of gnu make, gcc's 
 > environment variables set to use gnu m4 rather than hpux m4, and maybe an 
 > update to the old gnu patch.  If you had bare bones hpux-10.20, and didn't 
 > have write access to the directories where a pre-built gcc would install, yo
 > u 
 > had to build gnu make, and then a bootstrap gcc, using the primitive hpux C,
 >  
 > then build and install bison and flex, after which you could do a full 
 > bootstrap build of gcc.  The reason for the latter is that gcc assumes that 
 > a 
 > system which has lex library installed but no flex will have a full 
 > installation of lex, which is not a correct assumption on hpux.  
 > I note from reading today's latest how-to's that hpux make still is not a 
 > posix make, but there may be a posix and a BSD make also available, one of 
 > which ought to be more suitable than the hpux version.
 > 
Sigh.  It drives me crazy when people make statements like this, but do
not properly qualify them.

Tim's statement is true if and only if you're using snapshots or a patched
source release.

If you get a release tarball, then none of the things in Tim's message are
necessary.

jeff