Trying to use gas in building gcc-20010115

Trying to use gas in building gcc-20010115

[James Overly]

Hi -

I am attempting to build gcc-20010115 distribution
on the alpha using OSF 4.0f. I ended up getting an error 
in stage 3 of the bootstrap and it was suggested that
I use gas instead of the native assembler.

When I switch to gas I get the error message:

as: unrecognized option `-O0'
*** Exit 1
Stop.

whenever I try to compile anything. 

It looks like I do not have things setup correctly however 
I can not find anything addressing this in the documentation.
I know I must be doing something stupid.

Any help would be greatly apprecated.

Thanks

Jim Overly

Re: Trying to use gas in building gcc-20010115

[Anthony Lee]

I thought gas doesn't work for OSF 4.0x ??? I tried that path too
because OSF native assembler can't handle gcc's long assembly variables.
Eventually I gave up and just used -fsquangle option with gcc.

James Overly wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> 
> I am attempting to build gcc-20010115 distribution
> on the alpha using OSF 4.0f. I ended up getting an error
> in stage 3 of the bootstrap and it was suggested that
> I use gas instead of the native assembler.
> 
> When I switch to gas I get the error message:
> 
> as: unrecognized option `-O0'
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
> 
> whenever I try to compile anything.
> 
> It looks like I do not have things setup correctly however
> I can not find anything addressing this in the documentation.
> I know I must be doing something stupid.
> 
> Any help would be greatly apprecated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim Overly

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Re: Trying to use gas in building gcc-20010115

[James Overly]

Hi -

I was able to get gas to work by wrapping it with a simple script.
I renamed gas (as to as-new and called the following script as:

#! /bin/sh
GAS_FLAGS=""
for AS_VAR in $*
do
   if  [ "$AS_VAR" != "-O0" ]
   then
        GAS_FLAGS=$GAS_FLAGS" $AS_VAR"
   fi
done
\as-new $GAS_FLAGS

I still have no idea why -O0 is being passed to gas or why gas dislikes
it and the alpha as accepts it. Anyway this seems to work however I
don't know what side effects it might cause.

Jim Overly

> I thought gas doesn't work for OSF 4.0x ??? I tried that path too
> because OSF native assembler can't handle gcc's long assembly variables.
> Eventually I gave up and just used -fsquangle option with gcc.
> 
> James Overly wrote:
> > 
> > Hi -
> > 
> > I am attempting to build gcc-20010115 distribution
> > on the alpha using OSF 4.0f. I ended up getting an error
> > in stage 3 of the bootstrap and it was suggested that
> > I use gas instead of the native assembler.
> > 
> > When I switch to gas I get the error message:
> > 
> > as: unrecognized option `-O0'
> > *** Exit 1
> > Stop.
> > 
> > whenever I try to compile anything.
> > 
> > It looks like I do not have things setup correctly however
> > I can not find anything addressing this in the documentation.
> > I know I must be doing something stupid.
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly apprecated.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Jim Overly
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Lee	
> Energex                                            
> 150 Charlotte Street                 ..--  __o 
> Brisbane                        ....--   _ \<,_               
> Qld 4000                       ____     (_)/ (_)                         
> Australia
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> fax:  +61 7 3407 4607
> email: AL012@energex.com.au
> 
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